US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on March 11 for "Clamp member and hard disk drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,347, issued on March 11, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Clamp member and hard disk drive device" was invented by Fumiyasu Higuchi (Kitasaku-gun, Japan), Shigeya Abe (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Daisuke Ito (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clamp member is a disk-shaped member configured to fix a recording disk to a rotating part of a spindle motor. The clamp member includes a clamp lower surface, a plurality of first through holes, and a plurality of second through holes. The clamp lower surface is provided in an outer edge region of the clamp member, contacts an upper surface of the recordin...