This spindle motor has a base plate, a stator mounted on the base plate, a bearing provided on the base plate, a rotating shaft rotatably provided on the bearing, and a rotor fixed to the rotating shaft. The rotor is formed of a metallic magnetic substance and resin and is fixed to the rotating shaft at the magnetic substance, and a field magnet fixed to the rotor. The field magnet is pressed into and fixed to the rotor at a resin section of the rotor.
An external rotor motor is disclosed, which features a stator (11) and a rotor (13) surrounding the stator (11) while leaving an air gap. A damper (16) made of an elastic material is arranged on the outside of the rotor (13) in order to dampen resonant rises in airborne sound, which is emitted by the rotor of the external rotor motor and by an assembly coupled to it. In the case of a rotor (13) that is designed to be pot-shaped, the damper (16) is preferably embodied as a damping cap (17), which surrounds the pot jacket (132) and at least partially covers the pot base (131) (FIG. 1).
