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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2006
Yong-kyu Byun, Yongin-si, KR;
Min-pyo Hong, Suwon-si, KR;
Cheol-soon Kim, Anyang-si, KR;
No-yeol Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Yong-kyu Byun, Yongin-si, KR;
Min-pyo Hong, Suwon-si, KR;
Cheol-soon Kim, Anyang-si, KR;
No-yeol Park, Seongnam-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Abstract
A spindle motor assembly includes a spindle motor having a shaft and a hub that rotates on the shaft, and a hard disk having a data storage medium mounted in the form of a whole disk, and a fastener attached to the center of a bottom surface of the disk-shaped data storage medium that faces the spindle motor. The fastener is a screw or a nut. In the case in which the fastener is a screw, a head of the screw is attached to the bottom surface of the hard disk, and the body of the screw is received in a screw hole in the upper portion of the shaft of the spindle motor. In the case in which the fastener is a nut, the nut is engaged with an external thread on an outer circumferential surface of the hub of the spindle motor.