US Patent Issued to NIDEC on Dec. 30 for "Base plate, spindle motor, disk drive device, and base plate manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,123, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NIDEC Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Base plate, spindle motor, disk drive device, and base plate manufacturing method" was invented by Genya Itagaki (Kyoto, Japan), Kenta Miyoshi (Kyoto, Japan), Michihiro Ito (Kyoto, Japan), Takashi Mitsunari (Kyoto, Japan), Ryo Furuya (Kyoto, Japan), Seiji Maruoka (Kyoto, Japan) and Masahiro Imahori (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base plate becomes a part of a housing of a disk drive device and is made of a metal die-cast member. The base plate includes a bottom wall portion and a cylindrical wall portion. The bottom wall portion extends perpendicular...