ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,613, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Base and hard disk drive device" was invented by Hideaki Showa (Kitasaku-gun, Japan) and Junichi Nakane (Kitasaku-gun, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base serves as a part of a housing of a hard disk drive device. The base includes a bottom plate part and a pivot shaft extending in a top-bottom direction. The pivot shaft includes a first shaft part formed integrally with the bottom plate part, and a second shaft part fixed to the first shaft part in a lower end region, a cover of the hard disk drive device being attached to the second part shaft in...