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5471357 Magnetic disk drive device having a liquid insulating material provided in different thicknesses on an iron core  
A multi-layered insulating film of different thicknesses and which is easily formed on an iron core of the multipole structure in a magnetic disk drive device. The thickness of the insulating film...
5469425 Method of manufacturing an index apparatus  
A method of manufacturing an index apparatus includes thermally transferring a hot stamped section having a low light reflectance onto an outer peripheral surface of a magnet of a frequency...
5463511 Spindle unit having pre-load mechanism  
A rotor magnet is attached to the inner peripheral portion of a hub to attach a magnetic disk or the like and a stator is provided in the outer peripheral portion of a bearing housing so as to face...
5461523 Disc unit having a drive motor and a chucking assembly for holding a disc therewith  
A disc unit includes a control circuit board engaged with a base body of the disc unit, and a shield cover for noise shielding. The shield cover is also used for preventing the separation of...
5459628 Disk drive with profiled attachment of a spindle and hub  
A technique for joining a hub and a spindle of a disk drive is disclosed wherein the hub and spindle are joined by an interference fit. The interface between the hub and the spindle is provided...
5457588 Low profile hydrodynamic motor having minimum leakage properties  
A spindle motor comprises a rotary sleeve; a rotor hub which is integrally rotated with the rotary sleeve; a stationary sleeve; and a stationary support extending upwardly from the stationary part,...
5452156 Spindle motor with combined pressure relief and adhesive carrying annular recesses  
A spindle motor, a hub member for carrying a recording disk(s) thereon, a shaft member fixedly mounted to the hub member, and a bracket member rotatably supporting the shaft member. A pair of...
5450260 Space saving support mechanism for an eccentric drive pin in a rotating disk storage apparatus  
A disk drive with a turntable for supporting a flexible magnetic disk thereon has a spindle extending centrally through the turntable for engaging a first opening formed centrally in a sheet metal...
5450261 Magnetic disc drive motor having disc securely fixed to loading surface to abut upper bearing outer ring  
A magnetic disc drive motor is provided. It includes a frame, a fixed shaft mounted on the frame upper and lower ball bearings. Inner rings of the upper and lower ball bearings are mounted on the...
5446610 Disk storage device having a brushless DC drive motor  
A disk storage device having a clean chamber for a storage disk having a central opening is provided with a brushless drive motor. The drive motor includes a stator and a winding on the stator and...
5444586 Removable cartridge for a disk drive with a 1.8 inch form factor  
A removable cartridge 200 for a disk drive 30 which has a 1.8 inch form factor, has multifunction features which allow for high data storage capacity at a reduced size. The cartridge 200 includes a...
5434730 Spindle motor and recording medium assembly  
A spindle motor and recording medium assembly having a rotary shaft, and a rotary portion. The rotary portion includes a recording medium, a fixing member, a boss, and rotating motor elements...
5434729 Magnetic disc driving motor  
A magnetic disc driving motor comprises a hub for mounting a magnetic disc thereon, a motor stator for driving the hub rotationally, and a motor rotor formed in the hub and arranged to face the...
5432644 Disk drive unit having motor components in a compact arrangement  
A motor has a stator and a rotor, the stator having cores and drive coils which generate magnetic fields for rotating the rotor. The stator also has a yoke surrounding the rotor and the rotor is...
5430589 Computer disk drive unit having vibration absorbing isolator disposed between the housing cover and the memory storage unit  
A computer disk drive unit includes a housing having a lower base and an upper removable cover which define a disk storage compartment therebetween. A shaft fixed to the lower base supports a...
5430590 Spindle system for a disk drive  
A spindle system is comprised or a journal and thrust air bearing. The journal bearing; has two sets of opposing groove areas. The thrust air bearing has two sets of spiral grooves. The thrust air...
5422769 Spin motor for rotating a storage disk in a disk drive  
A disk storage drive is provided with a brushless drive motor having a stator with a winding. An external rotor coaxially surrounds the stator and is spaced therefrom by a substantially cylindrical...
5416655 Magnetic disk apparatus having a motor driven disk clamp  
A magnetic disk apparatus has a sealed up space between a base plate and its cover. A magnetic disk with its spindle motor for driving the magnetic disk, and magnetic heads with respective...
5412522 Portable low profile information storage system  
Disclosed is a low profile information storage system including a low profile information storage cartridge having a housing consisting of a base and a cover defining a sealed chamber with one or...
5408374 Miniature hard disk drive with spin motor for portable computer  
Disclosed is a disk drive information storage device which, in one embodiment, includes a disk having a diameter in the range of about 45 to 50 min., with a housing and a spin motor. In another...
5400191 Electronic index pulse generating system for speed control in rotating disk data storage apparatus  
An index pulse generating system utilizes two periodic motor speed signals, one generated by a speed sensor coil actuated upon by a permanent magnet rotor mounted to a turntable, and the other...
5400197 Disc drive spindle motor  
A low profile fixed shaft disc drive motor with separate disc mounting and motor sections. The motor is ball staked to a cup shaped piece of sheet metal, which is in turn screwed onto the casing of...
5394284 Direct access storage device having a stable ball bearing cage design  
The instability of a cage in a precision ball bearing at high speeds may be eliminated by controlling the position of the cage. The control of a position of a cage is accomplished by forming three...
5394283 Disk storage drive having a rotor mounted with a plurality of bearing  
A disk memory drive is presented having a stator and a rotor that is equipped with a centered hub, which hub has a surface onto which one or several hard disks are mountable. The bearing system...
5392178 Motor for a disc driving device having a hub positioned on inner race of an upper bearing  
A motor for a disc driving device having a single straight shaft for rotating a magnetic disc mounted on a hub press-fitted to the single shaft. The single straight shaft is prevented from being...
5392176 Recording/reproducing device employing device housing and printed circuit board and electronics as structural and functional part of media drive motor and the media drive motor  
A disk drive in which the disk spindle motor for a rotatable recording/reproducing media has a printed circuit stator winding on a printed circuit board within the disk drive housing, fitted...
5388094 Turntable brake for a disc player  
The present invention relates to a turntable brake for a disc player capable of preventing a turntable from rotating when a disc is improperly loaded on the turntable. In accordance with the...
5379169 Magnetic disk drive spindle motor having plates to shield the motor enclosed space from the oustside  
A magnetic disk drive spindle motor includes a cylindrical spindle hub, a pair of cylindrical bearings, cylindrical bearing holders, a shaft, a housing, and dynamic pressure generating plates. The...
5373407 Disk drive spindle motor  
A small form factor disk drive having an extremely thin, high-energy product annular magnet within the spindle motor. The magnet includes twelve alternating poles disposed about the periphery and...
5367416 Spindle grounding device using magnetic fluid  
The hub includes a cup attached to the hub or rotating portion of the disk drive. The cup has a top. Both the cup and top have openings therein which accommodate the fixed shaft. The cup is filled...
5365388 Disk drive constructed to isolate motor vibration  
A disk drive has a stator positioner disposed on a shoulder of a drive shaft housing which is part of the spicule. The positioner secures the stator against movement and references the motor to the...
5337374 Disk drive apparatus  
A disk drive apparatus having a thick and simple structure with manufactured at low cost, and a bearing device having a thick structure, whose shaft deflection is small, and which is high in...
5333079 Low profile hard disk apparatus  
An annular recess is formed in a base which constitutes a disk chamber, and an armature constituting a spindle motor for driving a hard disk and composed of a stator core and a stator coil and a...
5325004 Motor  
A spindle motor includes a housing, a shaft member fixed in the housing, a rotor rotatably supported on the shaft member, a rotor magnet mounted on the rotor, and a stator placed facing with the...
5315467 Head actuator pivoting around stationary shaft and dish having such head actuator  
A head actuator has a shaft fixed on a base and a head supporting member, to which a head is attached, pivotably supported around the shaft. Because the shaft does not pivot with the head...
5315464 Disk apparatus and manufacturing method thereof  
Disclosed is a disk drive for storing representations of data. The disk drive includes a housing or enclosure. At least one disk is rotatably attached to the housing. Also attached to the housing...
5304879 Outer rotor motor  
In an outer rotor motor (1): a hub base (3) is in a center of an upper side of the motor (1); a chucking magnet (16) for carrying a disk is near the hub base (3); a spindle (4) is fixed to a...
5305163 Stationary angularly aligned stationary spindle shaft  
A stationary spindle shaft assembly supports and controllably rotates a disc pack within the housing of a magnetic disc drive. The shaft assembly includes an elongate spindle shaft fixed with...
5296981 Disk drive apparatus  
A disk drive apparatus includes a magnetic disk, a spindle motor for rotating the magnetic disk, a magnetic head for writing data on and/or reading out data from the magnetic disk, a support arm...
5295029 Disk drive including unitary deck for aligning and supporting axially retractable spindle assembly  
A disk drive assembly includes a disk pack with an axially retractable spindle assembly, along with a rotary actuator, mounted within a unitary deck and precision aligned by bores through spaced...
5295028 Spindle assembly with labyrinth seals and hub/back iron spacers  
A disk drive assembly includes a disk pack with an axially retractable spindle assembly and a rotary actuator, mounted within a unitary deck and precision aligned by bores through spaced apart...
5291355 Micro miniature hard disk drive  
A hard disk drive for a computer system including a head disk assembly with a disk platter of approximately one-and-eight-tenths-inch in diameter capable of storing more than forty megabytes. In an...
5291357 Magnetic recording device having reduced electromagnetic interference  
A magnetic recording device exhibiting reduced electromagnetic interference has a magnetic recording medium, a spindle motor for rotationally driving the magnetic recording medium, a magnetic head...
5280465 Fluid drive system for a rotating medium  
A drive system for rotating a disk includes a housing having a planar element with a working surface which includes a spindle which facilitates rotational movement of the disk relative to the drive...
5274288 Low noise spin motor for use in disk drive  
A low noise spin motor for use in a disk drive includes two bearings having different inside diameters, different outside diameters, and preferably the same size balls. The balls in the larger...
5264978 Support mechanism for an eccentric drive pin in rotating disk data storage apparatus  
A disk drive of the kind having a turntable for supporting a flexible magnetic disk thereon, a spindle extending centrally through the turntable for centering engagement in a first opening formed...
RE34412 Disk storage drive having motor drive with non-corrodible hub  
A disk storage drive is provided with a brushless drive motor having a stator with a winding. An external rotor coaxially surrounds the stator and is spaced therefrom by a substantially cylindrical...
5251082 Miniaturized disk file pluggable into a card terminal  
A disk/file for magnetic recording having overall dimensions of one quarter inch thick by about the size of a standard credit card with pin connectors for connecting into a receptacle such as for...
5251081 Spindle grounding device  
Disclosed is a disk drive having an enclosure for housing one or more disks, an actuator arm and sliders attached to the actuator arm. The sliders include magnetic transducers for reading...
5247409 Disk drive pin support mechanism in a rotating disk data storage apparatus  
A disk drive for use with a flexible magnetic disk having a sheet metal hub having a central hole and an eccentric slot formed therein. The disk drive has a turntable on which the disk is to be...