Abstract: According to the present invention, foreign substances, such as external dust and the like, can be prevented from being introduced into a lubricating fluid inside a bearing, so that the extension of the durability life of a motor or fan motor can be expected and once the assembly of a rotor assembly is completed, an impeller and a stator assembly can be assembled even in a non-clean room environment, thereby reducing cost and time in an assembly process, and because a sealing protrusion can block external foreign substances in a state in which the sealing protrusion is located radially inside a sleeve than the outer diameter of the sleeve, the design of a stator core can be made more freely, and it can be applied in even a case where the inner diameter of the stator core is small and the thickness of the stator core is large.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing device includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor forms a bearing clearance and a sealing part connected with the bearing clearance. A liquid-vapor interface is disposed in the sealing part together with the stator, and the bearing clearance is filled with a lubricating fluid. The stator and the rotor form a storage space connected with the sealing part to receive the lubricating fluid. The storage space has a region in which force applied to the liquid-vapor interface increases by a capillary phenomenon at a time that the lubricating fluid leaks to fill the bearing clearance.

Abstract: There are provided a spindle motor and a hard disk drive including the same. The spindle motor includes: a lower thrust member fixed to a base member; a shaft fixed to the base member; a sleeve rotatably installed on the shaft; a rotor hub coupled to the sleeve; and an upper thrust member fixed to an upper end portion of the shaft, wherein the sleeve includes a circulation hole formed therein, an upper auxiliary pressure bearing is formed between the upper thrust member and the rotor hub facing each other in a radial direction, a lower auxiliary pressure bearing is formed between the lower thrust member and the sleeve facing each other in the axial direction, and pressure formed in the lubricating fluid by the upper auxiliary pressure bearing is higher than pressure formed in the lubricating fluid by the lower auxiliary pressure bearing.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes a shaft; a sleeve having a shaft hole formed therein so that the shaft is rotatably inserted thereinto; and first and second dynamic pressure generation grooves provided in at least one of an outer surface of the shaft and an inner surface of the sleeve and having a herringbone pattern including V-shaped portions in which upper and lower wings are provided to generate dynamic pressure in lubricating fluid filling a bearing clearance between the shaft and the sleeve at the time of rotation of the shaft. The first dynamic pressure generation groove has a V-shaped portion of which an upper wing is longer than a lower wing, and the second dynamic pressure generation groove is disposed below the first dynamic pressure generation groove in an axial direction and has a V-shaped portion of which a lower wing is longer than an upper wing.

Abstract: There is provided a spindle motor including: a rotating member including a protrusion portion protruded so as to form a clearance narrower than a bearing clearance; and a fixed member having a protrusion corresponding portion protruded so as to be disposed to face the protrusion portion and rotatably supporting the rotating member, wherein the protrusion portion includes a thrust dynamic pressure groove formed therein in order to generate thrust fluid dynamic pressure and has a radial length smaller than that of the protrusion corresponding portion disposed to face the thrust dynamic pressure groove and having a flat surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a spindle motor including: a rotating part including a hub coupled to a rotating shaft and a magnet coupled to the hub; and a fixing part including a sleeve supporting the rotating shaft and an armature facing the magnet, wherein the magnet has a contact part formed on an upper end portion thereof in a direction of the rotating shaft, the contact part partially contacting a lower end portion of the hub.

Abstract: There are provided a rotating member assembly and a spindle motor including the same. The rotating member assembly includes: a rotating member including a shaft and a hub fixed to an upper portion of the shaft, wherein perpendicularity of the hub with regard to the shaft at a position spaced apart from the center of rotation of the shaft in an outer diameter direction by an axial length or more for which the shaft is fitted into the sleeve is less than double a distance of a gap of a bearing clearance formed by fitting the shaft into the sleeve.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a hydrodynamic bearing module, including: a shaft; a sleeve having the shaft rotatably and insertedly coupled thereinto and forming a micro-interval together with the shaft; oil injected in order to form a hydrodynamic bearing part between the shaft and the sleeve; a cover coupled to a lower end portion of the sleeve and sealing the oil; and a protrusion member positioned between the shaft and the cover in an axial direction of the shaft and selectively mounted on the cover or the shaft.

Abstract: There are provided a rotating member assembly and a spindle motor including the same. The rotating member assembly includes: a rotating member including a shaft and a hub fixed to an upper portion of the shaft, wherein perpendicularity of the hub with regard to the shaft at a position spaced apart from the center of rotation of the shaft in an outer diameter direction by an axial length or more for which the shaft is fitted into the sleeve is less than double a distance of a gap of a bearing clearance formed by fitting the shaft into the sleeve.

Abstract: There is provided a hydrodynamic bearing assembly including: a sleeve against which a shaft is supported so that an upper end of the shaft, being compressed and inserted into a hub base of a rotor case, protrudes upwardly in an axial direction; a first thrust dynamic pressure generating part formed in at least one of a protrusion and the hub base corresponding to the protrusion, the protrusion being formed at an end of the sleeve along an inner diameter direction; and a second thrust dynamic pressure generating part formed around a protruding end portion of the sleeve, the protruding end portion facing an upper portion of a stopper part in the axial direction and the stopper part rotating together with the rotor case. Also, an oil sealing part has an oil interface between an outer circumferential surface of the sleeve along an outer diameter direction and an inner surface of the stopper part.

Abstract: There is provided a hydrodynamic bearing assembly including: a sleeve fixed to a base member and having a depression groove formed in a lower end portion thereof; and a shaft rotatably supported by the sleeve and having a stopper inserted in the depression groove, wherein the stopper includes a movement suppressing part provided on an outer peripheral surface thereof in order to suppress movements of a lubricating fluid.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus for clamping a disk and a motor assembly having the same. The apparatus for clamping a disk according to the present invention includes an apparatus for clamping a disk, including: a rotor case jointed with an outer peripheral surface of a shaft and rotating together with the shaft; a flange part including a disk mounting surface formed at a radial outer side of the rotor case and formed to be inclined as the disk mounting surface is toward the radial outer side; and a clamping member pressing and clamping the disk to the rotor case, wherein an inclination of the disk mounting surface of the flange part is changed depending on the position of the pressing point to the disk of the clamping member.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes a sleeve rotatably supporting a shaft, a thrust plate housing portion extending to an upper side of the sleeve in an axial direction so as to house a thrust plate, and a stopper ring housing portion stepped in an upper side of the thrust plate housing portion in the axial direction and housing a stopper ring for fixing the thrust plate. The stopper ring protrudes from the stopper ring housing portion such that an outer circumferential surface of the stopper ring has a larger height than an inner circumferential surface of the stopper ring housing portion.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes a shaft; a sleeve having a shaft hole formed therein so that the shaft is rotatably inserted thereinto; and first and second dynamic pressure generation grooves provided in at least one of an outer surface of the shaft and an inner surface of the sleeve and having a herringbone pattern including V-shaped portions in which upper and lower wings are provided to generate dynamic pressure in lubricating fluid filling a bearing clearance between the shaft and the sleeve at the time of rotation of the shaft. The first dynamic pressure generation groove has a V-shaped portion of which an upper wing is longer than a lower wing, and the second dynamic pressure generation groove is disposed below the first dynamic pressure generation groove in an axial direction and has a V-shaped portion of which a lower wing is longer than an upper wing.

Abstract: There is provided a stator assembly for a motor, the stator assembly including: a base including a core mounted therein, the core having a coil wound therearound and the coil generating rotational driving force of a rotating member; and an absorbing part coupled to the base so as to be disposed on an upper surface of the core and absorbing vibrations or noise of the core.

Abstract: There are provided an apparatus for clamping a disk and a motor assembly having the same. The apparatus for clamping a disk according to the present invention includes an apparatus for clamping a disk, including: a rotor case jointed with an outer peripheral surface of a shaft and rotating together with the shaft; a flange part including a disk mounting surface formed at a radial outer side of the rotor case and formed to be inclined as the disk mounting surface is toward the radial outer side; and a clamping member pressing and clamping the disk to the rotor case, wherein an inclination of the disk mounting surface of the flange part is changed depending on the position of the pressing point to the disk of the clamping member.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a spindle motor including: a rotating part including a hub coupled to a rotating shaft and a magnet coupled to the hub; and a fixing part including a sleeve supporting the rotating shaft and an armature facing the magnet, wherein the magnet has a contact part formed on an upper end portion thereof in a direction of the rotating shaft, the contact part partially contacting a lower end portion of the hub.

Abstract: There is provided a hydrodynamic bearing assembly that includes: a sleeve with an axial hole into which a shaft is inserted; a radial dynamic pressure unit formed on at least one of an outer diameter of the shaft and an inner diameter of the sleeve; and a sub-radial dynamic pressure unit formed on at least one of the outer diameter of the shaft and the inner diameter of the sleeve in an upper part in an axial direction of the radial dynamic pressure unit, wherein an oil interface formed in an axial hole between the radial dynamic pressure unit and the sub-radial dynamic pressure unit moves up toward the sub-radial dynamic pressure unit as the temperature of a motor rises due to driving of the motor.

Abstract: There is provided a hydrodynamic bearing assembly including: a sleeve against which a shaft is supported so that an upper end of the shaft, being compressed and inserted into a hub base of a rotor case, protrudes upwardly in an axial direction; a first thrust dynamic pressure generating part formed in at least one of a protrusion and the hub base corresponding to the protrusion, the protrusion being formed at an end of the sleeve along an inner diameter direction; and a second thrust dynamic pressure generating part formed around a protruding end portion of the sleeve, the protruding end portion facing an upper portion of a stopper part in the axial direction and the stopper part rotating together with the rotor case. Also, an oil sealing part has an oil interface between an outer circumferential surface of the sleeve along an outer diameter direction and an inner surface of the stopper part.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic bearing assembly includes a sleeve rotatably supporting a shaft, a thrust plate housing portion extending to an upper side of the sleeve in an axial direction so as to house a thrust plate, and a stopper ring housing portion stepped in an upper side of the thrust plate housing portion in the axial direction and housing a stopper ring for fixing the thrust plate. The stopper ring protrudes from the stopper ring housing portion such that an outer circumferential surface of the stopper ring has a larger height than an inner circumferential surface of the stopper ring housing portion.