IP Library Granted Patent US 8,368,282
Granted Patent B2
US 8,368,282 · App. 12/691,709 · Granted Feb 5, 2013

Disk drive device rotationally driving recording disk

Inventors: Minoru Sano (Shizuoka, JP); Tetsuo Kitamura (Shizuoka, JP)
Assignee: Alphana Technology Co., Ltd.
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Patent No.
US 8,368,282
App. No.
12/691,709
Granted
Feb 5, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A disk drive device includes: a hub on which a recording disk is to be mounted; a base configured to rotatably support the hub via a bearing; a core that is fixed to the base and includes a circular portion and S salient poles (where S is a natural number greater than or equal to 3) extending from the circular portion in the diameter direction; a three-phase coil that is formed by being wound around each of the S salient poles; and a magnet that is fixed to the hub and faces the S salient poles in the diameter direction, and that is provided with P driving magnetic poles in the circumferential direction (where P is a natural number greater than or equal to 2). In the disk drive device, the fundamental frequency component of the cogging torque based on the LCM (Least Common Multiple) of S and P (where S is the number of the salient poles of the core and P is the number of the driving magnetic poles of the magnet), is smaller than the second frequency component of the cogging torque, the frequency of which is twice the fundamental frequency.

Claims (27)

1. A disk drive device comprising:

a hub on which a recording disk is to be mounted;

a base configured to rotatably support the hub via a bearing;

a core that is fixed to the base and includes a circular portion and S salient poles extending from the circular portion in the diameter direction, where S is a natural number greater than or equal to 3;

a three-phase coil formed by each of the S salient poles being wound; and

a magnet that is fixed to the hub and faces the S salient poles in the diameter direction, and that is provided with P driving magnetic poles in the circumferential direction, where P is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, wherein the peak-to-peak value of a fundamental frequency component of cogging torque based on the LCM of S and P, where S is the number of the salient poles of the core and P is the number of the driving magnetic poles of the magnet, is less than or equal to 0.2 (mN·m).

2. The disk drive device according to claim 1 , wherein the coefficient of variation in the amplitude of a back electromotive force generated when the coil is rotated is less than or equal to 2 percent during one rotation of the coil.

3. The disk drive device according to claim 1 , wherein the difference between the outer diameter of a magnetization yoke, which provides the magnet with driving magnetic poles, and the inner diameter of the magnet is designed to be less than or equal to a predetermined value.

4. The disk drive device according to claim 1 , wherein a magnetization voltage when the magnet is provided with driving magnetic poles is controlled so as to be within a predetermined range.

5. The disk drive device according to claim 1 , wherein, when the rotational number of the hub is N (Hz) and the natural frequency of a second rocking mode when the recording disk is not rotated in a state where the recording disk is mounted on the hub is Fr (Hz), the natural frequency Fr satisfies Fr>N×(3×P+2).

6. A disk drive device comprising:

a hub on which a recording disk is to be mounted;

a base configured to rotatably support the hub via a bearing;

a core that is fixed to the base and includes a circular portion and S salient poles extending from the circular portion in the diameter direction, where S is a natural number greater than or equal to 3;

a three-phase coil that is formed by being wound around each of the S salient poles; and

a magnet that is fixed to the hub and faces the S salient poles in the diameter direction, and that is provided with P driving magnetic poles in the circumferential direction, where P is a natural number greater than or equal to 2, wherein the coefficient of variation in the amplitude of the back electromotive force generated when the coil is rotated, is less than or equal to 2 percent during one rotation of the coil.

7. The disk drive device according to claim 6 , wherein, when the rotational number of the hub is N (Hz) and the natural frequency of a second rocking mode when the recording disk is not rotated in a state where the recording disk is mounted on the hub is Fr (Hz), the natural frequency Fr satisfies Fr>N×(3×P+2).

8. The disk drive device according to claim 6 , wherein the difference between the outer diameter of a magnetization yoke, which provides the magnet with driving magnetic poles, and the inner diameter of the magnet is designed to be less than or equal to a predetermined value.

9. The disk drive device according to claim 1 , wherein the fundamental frequency component of cogging torque is smaller than a second frequency component of the cogging torque, the frequency of which is twice the fundamental frequency.

10. The disk drive device according to claim 1 , wherein a magnetization voltage when the magnet is provided with driving magnetic poles is controlled so as to be within a range lower than a maximum magnetization voltage.

11. The disk drive device according to claim 1 , wherein a three-phase current having an approximate sine wave shape is applied to the coil by a predetermined drive circuit.

12. The disk drive device according to claim 1 , wherein the hub is formed into a predetermined shape by machining a steel material having a soft magnetism.

13. The disk drive device according to claim 6 , wherein a fundamental frequency component of cogging torque based on the LCM (Least Common Multiple) of S and P, where S is the number of the salient poles of the core and P is the number of the driving magnetic poles of the magnet, is smaller than a second frequency component of the cogging torque, the frequency of which is twice the fundamental frequency.

14. The disk drive device according to claim 6 , wherein a magnetization voltage when the magnet is provided with driving magnetic poles is controlled so as to be within a predetermined range.

15. The disk drive device according to claim 6 , wherein a magnetization voltage when the magnet is provided with driving magnetic poles is controlled so as to be within a range lower than a maximum magnetization voltage.

16. The disk drive device according to claim 6 , wherein a three-phase current having an approximate sine wave shape is applied to the coil by a predetermined drive circuit.

17. The disk drive device according to claim 6 , wherein the hub is formed into a predetermined shape by machining a steel material having a soft magnetism.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 22, 2013
From: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS JAPAN ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 030063/0359 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 21, 2010
From: SANO, MINORU; KITAMURA, TETSUO
To: ALPHANA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 023829/0341 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2009-068737 · Mar 19, 2009 · national
Continuity (1)
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