Granted Patent B1

US 9,196,292 · App. 14/615,339 · Granted Nov 24, 2015

Abstract

Claims (27)

1. A rotary spindle comprising:

a rotatable shaft defining a shaft axis of rotation, and having a shaft top land normal to the shaft axis of rotation;

a disk mounting hub having an outer disk mounting surface, and having an inner cylindrical surface that faces and is in press-fit radial compression with an outer cylindrical surface of the shaft at a cylindrical hub-to-shaft interface, the cylindrical hub-to-shaft interface being concentric about the shaft axis of rotation; and

a disk clamp fastened to the rotatable shaft, the disk clamp having a clamp bottom land that faces and is in contact with the shaft top land, the disk clamp not having bottom contact with the disk mounting hub;

wherein the hub-to-shaft interface includes at least one circumferential groove that contains an adhesive sealing material.

2. The rotary spindle of claim 1 , wherein each of the shaft top land and the clamp bottom land is annular.

3. The rotary spindle of claim 1 , wherein the shaft top land is adjacent to the hub-to-shaft interface.

4. The rotary spindle of claim 1 , wherein the circumferential groove is in the inner cylindrical surface of the disk mounting hub.

5. The rotary spindle of claim 1 , wherein the circumferential groove has a groove depth in the range of 100 microns to 200 microns.

6. The rotary spindle of claim 1 , wherein the adhesive sealing material comprises a low halogen epoxy or a high temperature epoxy.

7. The rotary spindle of claim 1 , wherein the clamp bottom land is parallel to the shaft top land.

8. The rotary spindle of claim 1 , wherein the cylindrical hub-to-shaft interface has a diameter in the range of 2 mm to 6 mm.

9. A disk drive comprising:

a disk;

a disk drive base;

a spindle rotatably attached to the disk drive base, the spindle comprising;

a rotatable shaft defining a shaft axis of rotation, and having a shaft top land normal to the shaft axis of rotation;

a disk mounting hub having an outer disk mounting surface supporting the disk, the disk mounting hub having an inner cylindrical surface that faces and is in press-fit radial compression with an outer cylindrical surface of the shaft at a cylindrical hub-to-shaft interface, the cylindrical hub-to-shaft interface being concentric about the shaft axis of rotation; and

a disk clamp fastened to the rotatable shaft, the disk clamp having a clamp inner region that includes a clamp bottom land that faces and is in contact with the shaft top land, the disk clamp not having bottom contact with the disk mounting hub, the disk clamp including a clamp outer region that imparts an axial compressive preload force on the disk;

the hub-to-shaft interface includes at least one circumferential groove that contains an adhesive sealing material.

10. The disk drive of claim 9 , wherein each of the shaft top land and the clamp bottom land is annular.

11. The disk drive of claim 9 , wherein the shaft top land is adjacent to the hub-to-shaft interface.

12. The disk drive of claim 9 , wherein the circumferential groove is in the inner cylindrical surface of the disk mounting hub.

13. The disk drive of claim 9 , wherein the circumferential groove has a groove depth in the range of 100 microns to 200 microns.

14. The disk drive of claim 9 , wherein the cylindrical hub-to-shaft interface has a diameter in the range of 2 mm to 6 mm.

15. The disk drive of claim 9 , wherein the clamp bottom land is parallel to the shaft top land.

16. The disk drive of claim 9 , wherein the spindle further comprises a fixed bearing member for establishing a fluid bearing between the rotatable shaft and the fixed bearing member.

Assignments (8)