JPH02220284A - Spindle motor for magnetic disk device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To reduce whirling of a spindle hub due to the change of temperature to reduce the occurrence of error by dividing one ring into plural parts in the direction orthogonal to the axial direction so that these parts have gaps among themselves. CONSTITUTION:A spindle hub 36 consists of a ring 39A made of a material whose coefficient of thermal expansion is approximately equal to that of outer wheels of bearings 37 and 38 and a ring B40 made of an Al alloy whose coefficient of thermal expansion is approximately equal to that of a magnetic disk 34, and the inside peripheral surface of the hub 36 is brought into contact with outer wheels of bearings 37 and 38, and the ring A39 and the ring B40 whose outside peripheral surface is brought into contact with the center hole of the magnetic disk 34 are coupled by press-fitting. The ring B40 is divided into plural parts in the direction orthogonal to the axial direction so that they have gaps among themselves. Thus, whirling of the spindle hub due to the change of temperature is reduced, and off-track due to whirling is reduced to reduce the occurrence of data error.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] Regarding the structure of a spindle motor for a magnetic disk device, it is an object of the present invention to provide a spindle motor for a magnetic disk device that reduces whirling of a spindle hub and reduces thermal off-track and has fewer data errors. A fixed shaft protruding from the spindle motor base,
A stator attached to a fixed shaft, a roughly cylindrical spindle hub with a magnetic disk attached to its outer circumferential surface, a bearing whose inner ring is attached to the fixed shaft, an outer ring attached to the inner circumferential surface of the spindle hub, and the bearing faces the stator. In a spindle motor for a magnetic disk device, which includes a magnet disposed on the inner circumferential surface of a spindle hub, the inner circumferential surface of the spindle hub is in contact with an outer ring of a bearing, and the spindle hub has an inner circumferential surface that is in contact with an outer ring of a bearing. A ring A made of a material whose coefficient of expansion is approximately equal to that of the magnetic disk is fitted with a ring B whose outer peripheral surface is in contact with the center hole of the magnetic disk and whose material is approximately equal to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the magnetic disk. It is divided into a plurality of parts in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction with a predetermined gap between them.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to the structure of a spindle hub for a magnetic disk drive.

In recent years, there has been an increasing demand for higher capacity magnetic disk drives, and one way to achieve this is to increase the number of disks.

As a means of achieving this, a spindle motor that rotates on the outer ring of a bearing, in which the stator and rotor are built inside the spindle hub, was developed.However, unlike conventional spindle motors that rotate on the inner ring of a bearing, this type of motor is in contact with the magnetic disk. Since the hub is a composite material body made of materials with various coefficients of thermal expansion, various problems arise due to temperature fluctuations, so a solution to this problem is desired.

[Conventional technology]

As a spindle motor for a conventional 5i:', 3.52 small magnetic disk device, there is a bearing inner ring rotating type spindle motor shown in a side sectional view in FIG.

In the figure, reference numeral 1 denotes a spindle hub on which a magnetic disk 2 and a spacer 3 for holding a plurality of magnetic disks 2 at intervals are attached to the outer peripheral surface.

4 is the base of the housing of the magnetic disk device.

A substantially cylindrical vertical wall portion 4b is provided on the base 4 so as to be perpendicular to each other from the inside to the outside of the housing, and a through hole 4a is bored in the inside.

A portion of the shaft 5 that passes through the through hole 4a and projects to the outside of the housing is fixed to the top surface 1a of the spindle hub 1 by a press-fit ring method.

On the other hand, a round tray-shaped rotor 6 is fixed to the other end of the shaft 5 by a method such as press fitting.

The shaft 5 is rotatably supported with respect to the base 4 by bearings 8 and 7, which have an inner ring fixed to the shaft 5 and an outer ring fixed to the vertical wall 4b of the base 4.

In the drawing, a stator 9 consisting of a coil, a core, etc. is provided on the side of the lower end of the vertical wall portion 4b of the base 4, while a magnet 10 facing the stator 9 is provided on the vertical wall portion 6a of the rotor 6. ing.

Therefore, when the stator 9 is energized, the rotor 6 rotates due to the action of the stator 9 and the magnet 10, and this rotation rotates the magnetic disk 2 via the shaft 5 and the spindle hub l.

However, in the spindle motor with such a configuration, the rotor 6
Since the rotor 6 is provided below the base 4, if the magnetic disk device has height restrictions, the height of the rotor 6 becomes a dead space, and there is a problem that the number of magnetic disks 2 cannot be increased.

Therefore, in such a case, a bearing outer ring rotating type spindle motor having a stator and rotor built into the spindle hub, as shown in the side sectional view of FIG. 4, is used.

In the figure, 11 is a spindle hub on which a magnetic disk 12 and a spacer 13 for holding a plurality of magnetic disks 12 at intervals are attached to the outer peripheral surface.

Reference numeral 14 denotes a base of the housing of the magnetic disk device, and holds the lower end of the shaft 15 firmly.

The spindle hub 11 is rotatably supported with respect to the base 14 by bearings 16 and 17 whose inner ring is fixed to the shirt opening 5 and whose outer ring is fixed to the inner peripheral surface of the spindle hub 11 .

The shaft 15 is provided with a stator 18 made of a boil, a core, etc., while a magnet 19 and a yoke 19a facing the stator 18 are provided on the inner peripheral surface of the spindle hub 11.

Therefore, when the stator 18 is energized, the stator 18
The spindle hub 11 rotates due to the action of the magnet 19 and the magnetic disk 12 .

With this configuration, even if the magnetic disk drive has height restrictions, the spindle hub 11 can be used to its full height, compared to the bearing inner ring rotation type spindle motor shown in FIG. , numerous magnetic disks 12
It is possible to install

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, the spindle hub 11 of the bearing outer ring rotation type spindle motor explained in FIG. 4 is different from the spindle hub 11 of the bearing inner ring rotation type spindle motor explained in FIG. The magnetic disk 12, the spacer 13, the bearings 16 and 17, the magnetic eye 9 and the yoke 1 are made of one type of material with the same coefficient of thermal expansion.
Since the combined body 9a is combined with a plurality of materials having different thermal expansion coefficients, it becomes a complex thermal expansion coefficient body, and there is a problem that data errors due to temperature fluctuations occur as described below.

(If the spindle hub 11 is made of aluminum alloy, which is the same material as the magnetic disk 12, the temperature between the spindle hub 11 and the bearings 16 and 17 will vary due to the difference in thermal expansion coefficient between the bearings 16 and 17, which are made of iron-based material. Thermal stress associated with the fluctuation occurs, affecting the trajectory of the bear links 16 and 17, and causing the spindle hub 11 to collapse.

This collapse increases as the temperature rises, and the magnetic disk 12
When viewed as the above data information, the information is eccentric compared to before the temperature rise.

That is, the spindle hub 11 exhibits a whirling phenomenon.

Particularly in the case of a servo surface servo system having a dedicated magnetic disk for servo, the greater the distance between the servo magnetic disk and the data magnetic disk, the greater the amount of runout and the more significant data errors occur.

(2) Considering the above-mentioned whirling, the spindle hub 11
If it is made of a material with a coefficient of thermal expansion that is approximately the same as that of the bearings 16 and 17, then due to the difference in coefficient of thermal expansion between the magnetic disk 12 and the smoothness 13, there will be a temperature fluctuation between the spindle hub 11 and the magnetic disk 12. Associated thermal stress occurs and reversible and irreversible off-track occurs, resulting in data errors.

The present invention was made to solve the above problems, and
The present invention provides a spindle motor for a magnetic disk device that reduces off-track caused by whirling of a spindle hub and causes fewer data errors.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above object, in the present invention, as shown in the principle diagram of FIG. A ring A39 made of a material whose coefficient of expansion is substantially equal to that of the magnetic disk 34 and a ring B40 whose outer peripheral surface is in contact with the center hole of the magnetic disk 34 and whose material is substantially equal to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the magnetic disk are fitted together. A predetermined gap 40a between
It is divided into a plurality of pieces in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction.

[Effect]

The spindle hub 36 is attached to two rings, ring A39 and ring B40.
Since the ring B40 is divided into a plurality of parts in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction with a predetermined gap 40a between them, the difference in elongation in the radial direction due to thermal expansion is It is absorbed as a variation in the interference between parts, and in the axial direction, the gap acts as a relief, reducing mutual interference due to differences in elongation and reducing the occurrence of thermal stress.

This prevents the spindle hub 36 from exhibiting an independent coefficient of thermal expansion with respect to the bearings 37 and 38 and the magnetic disk 34, suppresses the occurrence of thermal stress due to temperature fluctuations, and prevents the bearings 37 and 38 and the magnetic disk 34 can be used as a spindle hub having substantially the same coefficient of thermal expansion.

〔Example〕

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

In FIG. 2(a), 30 is a housing of a magnetic disk device, and 31 is a spindle motor base fitted into a through hole 30a formed in the housing 30.

32 is a fixed shaft whose lower end is fixed to the spindle motor base 31 by a method such as press fitting, 33 is a stator consisting of a coil and a core etc. attached to the fixed shaft 32, and 34 is a magnetic disk whose base material is an aluminum alloy. It is.

Reference numeral 35 denotes a spacer, which maintains the distance between the eight magnetic disks 34 at a predetermined dimension in this embodiment.

Reference numeral 36 denotes a substantially cylindrical spindle hub to which the eight magnetic disks 34 and the spacer 35 are attached to the outer peripheral surface.

37 is a bearing whose inner ring is attached to the lower part of the fixed shaft 32 by a press fitting method, and 38 is a bearing whose inner ring is fixed to the fixed shaft 3.
This is a bearing that is installed above 2 by a method such as press fitting.

The spindle hub 36 is made of a material (for example, stainless steel alloy) that has approximately the same coefficient of thermal expansion as the outer rings of the bearings 37 and 38.
The spindle hub 36 is composed of a ring B40 made of an aluminum alloy whose coefficient of thermal expansion is approximately equal to that of the magnetic disk 34, and the spindle hub 36 has a bearing 37.
a ring A39 that is in contact with the outer ring of No. 8 and is made of a material that has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is substantially equal to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the outer ring of the bearing; and a ring B40 whose outer peripheral surface is in contact with the center hole of the magnetic disk 34 and is made of a material that is substantially equal to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the magnetic disk. are connected by press fitting.

The ring B40 is divided into a plurality of parts in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction, with a predetermined gap 40a being maintained between them.

In the figure, ring B is completely divided by the gap 40a, but as shown in the figure (b), ring B4 is completely divided by the gap 40a.
A plurality of slits 40a having a predetermined width and depth in the circumferential direction of
' may be engraved.

Then, the outer rings of bearings 37 and 38 and ring A39
and are fixed by press-fitting or the like.

41 is a magnet provided on the inner peripheral surface of the spindle hub 36 so as to face the stator 33;
39 serves as a yoke for the magnet 41.

42 is a head for writing/reading data on each disk surface of the magnetic disk 34;

These heads 42 are attached to a head arm 44 via a gimbal spring 43.

The head arms 44 are stacked and integrated with a spacer 45 interposed therebetween.

The head arm 44 and spacer 45 integrated in this way are attached to the actuator rotor 51.

This actuator rotor 51 is rotatable around a shaft 46 provided upright in the housing 30.

47 is a coil attached to the actuator rotor 51;
48 is a yoke attached to the housing 30.

This yoke 48 includes an upper yoke 48a to which a magnet 49 is fixed, and a middle yoke 48b1 inserted into the coil 47.
It consists of a lower yoke 48c to which a magnet 50 is fixed.

The coil 47 and yoke 48 constitute a voice motor.

52 is a Hall element for speed detection provided on the spindle motor base 31, and 53 is a magnet attached to the lower surface of the spindle hub 36.

The operation of the device with this configuration is such that when the stator 33 is first energized, the spindle hub 36 to which the magnet 41 is attached rotates at a constant speed (for example, 3600 rpm) around the fixed shaft 32 via bearings 37 and 38.
do.

Next, a control device (not shown) causes a control current to flow through the coil 47.

Then, thrust is generated in the coil 47, the actuator rotor 51 rotates around the shaft 46, and the head 42 accesses the target track on the magnetic disk 34.

According to the above configuration, the ring A39 is made of a material that has a coefficient of thermal expansion approximately equal to that of the outer rings of the bearings 37 and 38;
The ring B40 is made of a material that has a coefficient of thermal expansion approximately equal to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the magnetic disk 34, and since the connecting portion between the ring A39 and the ring B40 is divided into a plurality of parts, the heat generated between the ring A39 and the ring B40 is Stress can be reduced as much as possible.

That is, the difference in elongation in the radial direction due to thermal expansion is absorbed as a variation in the press-fit interference of the joint part, and in the axial direction, the gap 40a acts as a relief, preventing mutual interference due to the difference in elongation. reduce the occurrence of heat stress.

This prevents the spindle hub 36 from exhibiting an independent coefficient of thermal expansion with respect to the bearings 37 and 38 and the magnetic disk 34, suppresses the occurrence of thermal stress due to temperature fluctuations, and prevents the bearings 37 and 38 and the magnetic disk 34 can be used as a spindle hub having substantially the same coefficient of thermal expansion.

Therefore, whirling and off-track due to temperature fluctuations can be reduced, and the occurrence of data errors is also reduced.

〔Effect of the invention〕

By the spindle motor of the magnetic disk device of the present invention,
The whirling caused by temperature changes in the spindle hub is reduced, the off-track caused by this is reduced, and data errors are less likely to occur, resulting in great economic and industrial effects.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a principle diagram of a spindle motor of a magnetic disk device of the present invention, FIG. 2(a) is a configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a spindle motor of a magnetic disk device of the present invention, and FIG. A partial view showing another shape of ring B in Figure (a), Figure 3 is a side sectional view of a bearing inner ring rotation type spindle motor of a conventional magnetic disk drive, and Figure 4 is a side sectional view of a conventional magnetic disk drive. FIG. 2 is a side sectional view of a bearing outer ring rotation type spindle motor. In the figure, 31 is a spindle motor base, 32 is a fixed shaft, 33 is a stator 34 is a magnetic disk, 35 is a spacer, 36 is a spindle hub, 37.38 is a bearing, 39 is a ring A,
40 is ring B, 40a is gap, 40
a° is a slit, 41 is a magnet, and 42 is a head. Tree 9: Shoulder of the spindle motor placed at the foot of the gIlla magnetic disk, diagram (Zone 2) Spindle motor n-law V side view Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] A fixed shaft (32) protruding from a spindle motor base (31), and a stator (32) attached to the fixed shaft (32).
33), a substantially cylindrical spindle hub (36) having a magnetic disk (34) attached to its outer circumferential surface, an inner ring attached to the fixed shaft (32), and an outer ring attached to the inner circumferential surface of the spindle hub (36). Installed bearing (
37, 38); and a magnet (41) disposed on the inner circumferential surface of the spindle hub (36) facing the stator (33), The spindle hub (36) has an inner circumferential surface in contact with the outer ring of the bearing (37, 38), a ring A (39) made of a material substantially equal to the thermal expansion coefficient of the outer ring of the bearing, and an outer circumferential surface in contact with the magnetic disk. A ring B (40) is in contact with the center hole of the magnetic disk and is made of a material substantially equal to the coefficient of thermal expansion of the magnetic disk.
) is a spindle motor for a magnetic disk device, characterized in that it is divided into a plurality of parts in a direction orthogonal to the axial direction with a predetermined gap (40a) between them.