Spindle motor and disk drive apparatus provided with the spindle motor

A spindle motor for use in a disk drive apparatus, comprising:

• a rotary unit including rotor magnets;
• a bearing mechanism arranged to rotatably support the rotary unit about a vertically-extending center axis;
• a stator arranged opposing to the rotor magnets;
• a base member positioned below the stator;
• and
• a connector fixed to a lower surface of the base member and connected to a leader line extending from the stator through a communication hole of the base member, wherein
• the connector includes a resin-made pedestal fixed to the lower surface of the base member and a metal pin attached to the pedestal,
• the pedestal includes a hole-defining portion with at least one through-hole into which the leader line is inserted, the hole-defining portion including a hole-positioning lower surface and the leader line being connected to a first pin terminal of the metal pin on the hole-positioning lower surface,
• an upper surface of the metal pin is separated from the pedestal at a separation position between the first pin terminal and a second pin terminal of the metal pin, and
• a connection position of the first pin terminal and the leader line on the hole-positioning lower surface is covered with an adhesive agent, the periphery of a gap defined between the metal pin and the pedestal over an extent from the first pin terminal to the separation position being sealed by the adhesive agent except for the periphery of the through-hole of the hole-defining portion.