US Patent Issued to KOMURA-TECH on Sept. 30 for "Rotatable body mounting device and hard disk manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,166, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to KOMURA-TECH Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Rotatable body mounting device and hard disk manufacturing method" was invented by Makoto Gonda (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotatable body is configured to be held to a holding surface of a holder in a non-contact state by an action of air, and a movable shaft having a same axial center as a rotation shaft. A leading end of the movable shaft directly faces an end of the rotation shaft. The movable shaft is housed in an insertion part of the holder so as to be movable in an axial direction. Centering is automatically performed by maki...