US Patent Issued to NIDEC on June 3 for "Base plate and disk drive device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,413, issued on June 3, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Base plate and disk drive device" was invented by Takashi Mitsunari (Kyoto, Japan), Michihiro Ito (Kyoto, Japan) and Kenta Miyoshi (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base plate includes a support part, a bottom plate part, and a wall part. The wall part includes a first wall part and a second wall part above the first wall part. The first wall part includes a first wall surface and a support surface spreading from an upper end of the first wall surface to a radially outer side. The second wall part includes a second wall surface and a recess recessed to th...