Spindle motor
US6271612A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 23, 1999 |
| Grant date | Aug 7, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 23, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
- CPC primaryF16C2370/12
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A spindle motor in which a shaft and a sleeve are supported by a radial fluid bearing and a thrust bearing in a noncontact state via a bearing clearance and are relatively driven rotatively, a lubricant reservoir having one end communicating with the bearing clearance and another end communicating with the outside is provided on an outer peripheral side of the sleeve whose inner periphery opposes the shaft, and a lubricant supplying passage, which is a clearance of the lubricant reservoir on its side which communicates with the bearing clearance, is set to a size exhibiting capillarity. Bubbles in the lubricant inside the lubricant reservoir are discharged through the clearance communicating with the outside, and the bearing clearance is automatically lubricated stably through the lubricant supplying passage by means of capillarity.
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