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Flywheel device having metal disk and resin portion and method of producing the flywheel device

US5820010A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 14, 1997
Grant dateOct 13, 1998
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Expiry dateApr 14, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG11B15/29
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A flywheel device for use in a magnetic recording/reproducing unit or the like which device is simple in construction, and can be produced at low costs, and a method of making it. A capstan shaft is press-fitted in a hole formed in a central portion of a metal disk, and then a resin is filled on an outer peripheral portion and a central portion of the disk by outsert molding to form an outer peripheral resin portion and a central resin portion. The outer peripheral resin portion has a groove formed in an outer periphery thereof, and the central resin portion has gear portions.

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