Make Thinner Products

Being thin is a very appealing point as a component for notebook PCs. To make their chasses thin, both fans and hard disks are required to be equally thin. They each must be in a narrow space of several millimeters. Even a tiny runout of an axis will cause fans to contact the case, and make recorded data on the hard disk fragmentary and incomplete. To create motors that rotate smoothly in a space made as narrow as technologically possible, elaborate machining accuracy is indispensable. Nidec constantly seeks precision to respond to the unquenchable demand for thinner products.
Nidec’s Solutions with Thin Products

Less than 3-mm thick and with 20-mm sides—our ultra-compact cooling fans are a result of cutting-edge design and state-of-the-art analysis and manufacturing technology.

Smaller and thinner fan motors made possible with Fluid Dynamic Bearing technology originally developed for Hard Disk Drives.

Motors that can withstand the pressure of ocean depths of 4000m developed for submarine cable burying ROVs.

The Nidec group develops and manufactures state-of-the-art devices that revolutionize the interface between humans and machines.

As notebook PCs become thinner, the profile of HDD motors is also becoming lower. Nidec also supports the evolution of notebook PCs by producing thinner motors.

Modules that combine the superior capabilities of brushless DC motors with blowers, gears and other components

Utilize shape-related merits to a reducer-equipped, light, thin, short, and compact actuator.
Nidec’s Technology to Create Thin Products

Nidec quickly began developing and manufacturing fluid dynamic bearings (FDBs), which are dramatically accelerating the increase in HDD capacity and noise reduction. We are pioneers in mass production of HDD spindle motors that use FDBs.

