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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 01, 2001
Rikuro Obara, Miyota-machi, JP;
Hiroshi Yoshikawa, Miyota-machi, JP;
Minebea Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagano-ken, JP;
Abstract
A spindle motor of the present invention is capable of keeping its ball ( )'s pre-load constant, because a sleeve ( ) is capable of being resiliently deformed due to its resiliency, and therefore capable of constantly keeping a pre-load applied to the balls ( ) from inner and inner ring raceways of inner and outer rings ( ) of ball bearings ( ). In this motor, a rotor hub ( ) has an axial center bore ( ). This bore ( ) is provided with: a large-diameter bore portions in its opposite axial ends; and, a small-diameter bore portion ( ) axially interposed between the large-diameter bore portions. An inner diameter of the small-diameter bore portion ( ) is smaller than an outer diameter of the sleeve ( ). The axial center bore ( ) of the hub ( ) is fitted to an outer peripheral surface of the sleeve ( ) in an insertion manner through a heating shrinkage fit process, so that the sleeve ( ) is subjected to a radially inwardly exerted pressure applied from outside to resiliently deform radially inwardly. As a result, a small-diameter portion ( ) is formed in the sleeve ( ) to extend radially inwardly between the outer rings ( ).