US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on Nov. 25 for "Spindle motor having blind hole configuration detail and hard disk drive device having the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,502, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Spindle motor having blind hole configuration detail and hard disk drive device having the same" was invented by Junichi Nakane (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Hideaki Showa (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spindle motor includes a base being a cast product as a part of a housing of a hard disk drive device. The base has a hole portion configured to accommodate a fastening member configured to fasten a member to be attached to the base. The hole portion is a blind hole extending in a depth direction from a surface of the base and having a ti...