US Patent Issued to MINEBEA MITSUMI on July 28 for "Base member, spindle motor including base member, hard disk drive device, and method for manufacturing base member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,902, issued on July 28, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI INC. (Nagano, Japan).

"Base member, spindle motor including base member, hard disk drive device, and method for manufacturing base member" 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 base member includes a projection having a cylindrical shape and projecting in an axial direction and a component placement part. The projection and the component placement part are adjacent to each other via a curved surface part having a first curved surface and a second curved surface. The first curved surface and th...