Abstract: A disk drive device of the present disclosure includes a hub including a cylindrical portion with which a recording disk is to be engaged, and fixed with an annular magnet, a base including a support which supports a stator core including coils, and, a bottom which is integral with the support and which faces the coils in an axial direction, a fluid bearing mechanism supporting the hub in a manner freely rotatable relative to the base, and an annular member fixed to an inner circumference of the cylindrical portion of the hub and including a first part that is present in an area where the base and the magnet face with each other.

Abstract: A rotating device includes: a rotating body supported in a freely rotatable manner relative to a stationary body; a retaining gap retaining a lubricant; a fluid dynamic pressure generating portion generating dynamic pressure to the fluid; a capillary seal in communication with a first end of the retaining gap, and extending toward an external side from the retaining gap; a cap including an annular cover portion that covers at least a part of an end of the capillary seal located at the external side from the retaining gap, and, a cylindrical portion that extends from an outer circumference of the cover portion in an axial direction; and an annular groove including an annular first wall that encircles the cylindrical portion, an annular second wall that is encircled by the cylindrical portion, and a bottom wall that faces an end of the cylindrical portion opposite to the cover portion.

Abstract: A rotating device includes a shaft body including a portion extending in an axial direction, and a bearing body which retains a part of the shaft body, is relatively rotatable to the shaft body, and is provided with a groove formed part having an inner circumference formed with a fluid dynamic pressure generating groove. The bearing body includes, at the groove formed part, a slanted plating layer having a plating thickness gradually becoming thick toward an external side in the axial direction.

Abstract: A rotating device includes a retained assembly including a spherical retained member with a spherical encircled face, and an encircling member that includes an annular end face which encircles the spherical retained member and which extends outwardly in a radial direction, a retainer assembly including a retainer member which includes an encircling face encircling the encircled face and which retains thereinside a part of the spherical retained member, and a facing member that faces the encircling member in an axial direction, the retainer assembly supporting the retained assembly in a freely and relatively rotatable manner, and forming a fluid dynamic bearing mechanism, and a thrust dynamic pressure generating groove formed in at least either one of a surface of the encircling member and a surface of the facing member, which surfaces face with each other in the axial direction.

Abstract: A disk drive device includes a chassis, a top cover fixed to a chassis, a rotating body on which a disk retained in a disk retaining space formed between the chassis and the top cover is to be mounted, and a bearing body that supports the rotating body in a freely rotatable manner relative to the chassis. The bearing body has a lubricant applied in a predetermined area, and a capturer that captures the vaporized lubricant from the gas-liquid interface is provided in a space in communication with the disk retaining space from the gas-liquid interface of the lubricant.

Abstract: A disk drive device includes: a chassis; an annular hub on which a recording disk is to be mounted; a fluid dynamic bearing mechanism that supports the hub freely rotatable relative to the chassis; an annular extended portion extending outwardly in a radial direction from the hub; and an annular recess which is provided in the chassis and where the annular extended portion at least partially enters in the radial direction, in which a gap between the annular recess and the annular extended portion includes a portion that forms a flexed labyrinth in a cross-sectional view.

Abstract: A disk drive device includes a base, a hub on which a recording disk is to be mounted, and a fluid dynamic bearing unit that supports the hub in a freely rotatable manner relative to the base. The hub includes a hub protrusion to be engaged with the center hole of the recording disk, and amount portion on which the recording disk is to be mounted. A manufacturing method of this disk drive device applies electromechanical machining to the hub protrusion to form an electromechanical machined surface.