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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1995
Shinji Kinoshita, Nagano, JP;
Mitsuru Ide, Nagano, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Sankyo Seiki Seisakusho, Nagano, JP;
Abstract
A disk drive motor having a center shaft, a pair of ball bearings inner rings thereof being fixedly fitted with the center shaft while interposing a predetermined distance therebetween, a hub being supported so as to be rotatable about the center shaft while having outer rings of the ball bearings fixed to an inner hole thereof, a drive magnet integrally rotating the hub, a stator core being arranged so as to confront the drive magnet, and a first seal means and a second seal means being respectively arranged along ways to a space outside the motor to constitute seal mechanisms while communicating the respective ball bearings with the space outside the motor, wherein an annular spacer is fixedly fitted with the center shaft between the inner rings of the pair of ball bearings and an outer circumferential surface of the spacer confronts an inner circumferential surface of the inner hole of the hub while interposing a small gap therebetween, so that a labyrinth seal mechanism is formed.