Patents by Inventor Noriatsu Goto

Noriatsu Goto has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6242826
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spindle motor mainly used for an apparatus for driving a disc, which can increase the capacity of recorded information and the information transmission speed while reducing the size and thickness of the apparatus. This spindle motor corrects the balance of a structurally unbalanced chucking portion, and reduces the shaft deflection of a motor, non-uniform rotations, the inclination of a disc relative to a head, and the surface deflection of a disc loading portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2001
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ikuaki Saito, Yoshifumi Shimogaki, Masafumi Higuchi, Noriatsu Goto
  • Patent number: 5411338
    Abstract: A motor bearing device includes a rotary shaft, a bearing housing having a hole, a ball bearing rotatably supporting the shaft and arranged in the hole of the bearing housing and fixed to an outer ring of the ball bearing with adhesive, and an adhesive puddle formed at an inner surface of the hole of the bearing housing on a side of the bearing housing used for inserting the ball bearing into the bearing housing. A part of the adhesive is trapped in the puddle. The puddle can also be formed at an outer surface of the outer ring that corresponds to the inner surface of the hole of the bearing housing on the side thereof used for inserting the ball bearing into the bearing housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Noriatsu Goto