Nidec Assigned Patent

Nidec Corporation has been assigned a US patent (20130335860 A1) developed by four co-inventors for “base plate, base unit, motor, disk drive apparatus and method of manufacturing the base plate.”

Inventors  are Yuki Masumi and Junzo Fujinawa.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A base plate of a disk drive apparatus includes a motor base disposed around a central axis and a base body portion extending radially outward of the motor base. The motor base is made of a metallic material of a first type. The base body portion is made of a metallic material of a second type. The base body portion is a casting product in which the motor base is an insert component. An upper protruding portion and a lower protruding portion are defined in one of an outer end portion of a bottom plate portion of the motor base and an inner end portion of the base body portion.”

The patent application was filed on March 8, 2013 (US 13/789,974)