Nidec Assigned Patent

Nidec Corporation, Kyoto, Japan, has been assigned a patent (10,339,968) developed by Suginobu, Shingo, Shimomura, Takumi, and Imahori, Masahiro, Kyoto, Japan, for “base unit, spindle motor, and disk drive apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Provided is a base unit for use in a disk drive apparatus including a motor arranged to be capable of rotating about a central axis extending in a vertical direction. The base unit includes a base member arranged to extend radially to support the motor, and including a predetermined adhesion region and an outside region outside of the adhesion region, and a connector electrically connected to a wire arranged on the base member. The connector is adhered to the base member through an adhesive at the adhesion region of the base member. A wettability of the adhesive on the adhesion region is higher than a wettability of the adhesive on the outside region of the base member.”

The patent application was filed on July 6, 2018 (16/028,458