Disk drive device with hub and wiring member with increased thinness

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8995084
APP PUB NO 20140362471A1
SERIAL NO

14469229

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The disk drive device includes a base member with a first upper surface and a second lower surface, a hub, a bearing unit arranged on the base member that rotatably supports the hub, a spindle drive unit that drives the hub to rotate, and a wiring member arranged on the second surface of the base member. The spindle drive unit includes a stator core having a salient pole with coil wound around, and a magnet opposed thereto. The base member includes a wire hole through which a wire is placed, with a first opening on the first surface and a second opening on the second surface. A concaved area on the second surface includes a lower slope, axially between the concaved area and the second opening on which a wiring member is arranged. The wire is connected to the wiring member, radially outside of an outer diameter of the magnet.

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SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS JAPAN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CO LTD430-1 HANAGURA FUJIEDA-SHI SHIZUOKA 426-0292

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Iwai, Hiroshi Shizuoka, JP 165 2684
Tashiro, Tomoyuki Shizuoka, JP 37 136
Watanabe, Takanori Shizuoka, JP 208 2636

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