Patent ID: 8757883

Claim:
A disk drive device comprising: a base member; and a bearing unit that is arranged on the base member and is configured to rotatably support a recording disk relative to the base member, wherein the bearing unit includes: a shaft to be the center of the rotation of the recording disk; a sleeve configured to house the shaft and to allow relative rotation with the shaft being the axis; a radial space port on formed between an inner wall surface of the sleeve and an outer wall surface of the shaft; a pair of radial dynamic pressure generating portions spaced apart in an axial direction and respectively configured to generate, in the radial space portion, radial dynamic pressure between the inner wall surface near to one end of the sleeve and the outer wall surface of the shaft, and between the inner wall surface near to the other end of the sleeve and the outer wall surface of the shaft, the one end and the other end of the sleeve being defined in the axial direction, each of said radial dynamic pressure generating portions including a sleeve dynamic pressure corresponding portion that is part of the inner wall surface of the sleeve and a shaft dynamic pressure corresponding portion that is part of the outer wall surface of the shaft; and wherein lubricant is interposed in each of said radial dynamic pressure generating portions, a herringbone-shaped radial dynamic pressure groove for generating a radial dynamic pressure in the lubricant is formed in at least one of the radial dynamic pressure generating portions, and each sleeve dynamic pressure corresponding portion forms a tapered surface such that an inner diameter expands over the entirety of the herringbone-shaped radial dynamic pressure groove including a turned-back portion thereof; wherein a hub configured to mount the recording disk is connected with one end portion of the sleeve or the shaft, wherein the diameter of each sleeve dynamic pressure corresponding portion expands toward an axial outside of the sleeve, and the tapered surface of each sleeve dynamic pressure corresponding portion, respectively, is formed to have a same angle relative to an axial direction of the sleeve, and wherein the angle is set such that, when the relative rotation between the shaft and the sleeve is not being performed, the shaft is in surface contact with each of the pair of the sleeve dynamic pressure corresponding portions at positions opposite to the axis of the shaft.