ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,749, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Spindle motor" was invented by Akihiko Suzuki (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Makoto Chonan (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a base member for a heat-assisted magnetic recording disk drive apparatus, the base member including: a coating film coating at least a part of the base member, in which the coating film is an overbaked epoxy resin-containing electrodeposition coating film, a spindle motor including the base member, and a method for manufacturing the base member."
The patent was filed on Jan. 18, 2024, under Application No....