Minebea Mitsumi Inc.

Shigeya Abe

Daisuke Ito

Fumiyasu Higuchi

A clamp member is a disk-shaped member configured to fix a recording disk to a rotating part of a spindle motor. The clamp member includes a clamp lower surface, a plurality of first through holes, and a plurality of second through holes. The clamp lower surface is provided in an outer edge region of the clamp member, contacts an upper surface of the recording disk, and applies a downward force to the upper surface. The first through holes are provided at a first interval in the circumferential direction in a first region at an inner side in the radial direction from the outer edge region, and fastening members to be fastened to the rotating part are inserted into the first through holes. The second through holes are provided at a second interval in the circumferential direction in a second region at the inner side in the radial direction from the first region, and the fastening members are inserted into the second through holes.

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Kitasaku-gun, Japan

Shigeya Abe