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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 1995
Filed:
Jul. 21, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nagano Nidec Corporation, Nagano, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02K / ; H02K / ; H02K / ; H02K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310 / ; 310 90 ; 310217 ; 310 51 ;
Abstract
A spindle motor comprising a bracket, a shaft member secured to the bracket, a rotor rotatively supported by the shaft member while interposing bearings a rotor magnet fastened to the rotor and a stator disposed to confront the rotor magnet, wherein the rotor has a hub portion, to which a recording disk is fastened, and a rotor portion, to which the rotor magnet is fastened, the hub portion and the rotor portion being made to be interchangeable. The hub portion has a plurality of female screw holes for fastening the retaining cap, the number of a plurality of the female screw holes being different from the number of ball members of the ball bearing by at least two.