Patent ID: 8199428

Claim:
A clamp for a disk drive having a rotary member to be rotated and a disk attached to the rotary member, the clamp being formed as a plate spring and comprising: a clamp body defining a central portion; a periphery extended from the central portion and being circumferentially provided with a contact portion, the central portion being fastened to the rotary member, and the contact portion being pressed against the disk of the disk drive to apply a pressing force to the disk in a rotation axis direction and fixedly support the disk on the rotary member; and a wall portion extending from the periphery of the clamp body and being oriented in the rotation axis direction so that a frictional force is produced between the contact portion and the disk that resists a radially outward force that may radially outwardly move the contact portion when the contact portion is in contact with the disk, and is equal to or larger than the radially outward force acting on the contact portion, the wall portion being slanted relative to the rotation axis direction and radially expanding toward the contact portion so that the pressing force exerted by the contact portion includes an axial force component and a radially outward force component that is less than the axial force component.