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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:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nidec Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
310 71 ; 310156 ;
Abstract
A spindle motor has a stationary shaft, a rotor hub rotatably supported by the stationary shaft via a bearing, a loop-like rotor magnet attached to the internal surface of the rotor hub, and a stator disposed to opposedly face the rotor magnet. The stationary shaft has an opening at its base end. A connector is fit into the opening, and a wire lead drawn from a coil of the stator is electrically connected to the connector. The connector is detachably coupled to a mating connector of an external unit. Through these connectors, the power is supplied to the coil from the external unit.