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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2012
Kiyofumi Inoue, Kyoto, JP;
Shozo Tagata, Kyoto, JP;
Takahiro Nakamura, Kyoto, JP;
Koji Baba, Kyoto, JP;
Toshikazu Himeno, Kyoto, JP;
Kiyofumi Inoue, Kyoto, JP;
Shozo Tagata, Kyoto, JP;
Takahiro Nakamura, Kyoto, JP;
Koji Baba, Kyoto, JP;
Toshikazu Himeno, Kyoto, JP;
Nidec Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A housing member for use in a disk drive apparatus includes a rectangular bottom portion and a side wall portion arranged to extend upward from an outer circumferential portion of the bottom portion. The side wall portion includes four outside surfaces including a first outside surface and a second outside surface perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first outside surface. The first outside surface includes a first cutting base region. The second outside surface includes a second cutting base region. The bottom portion includes a bearing fixing portion arranged to fix a bearing mechanism of a motor arranged to rotate a disk.