Linear motor for a linear drive mechanism of a magnet levitation transport system

A linear motor for a linear drive mechanism of a magnetic levitation transport system, the linear motor comprising:

• a plurality of inductor supports arranged in a row, said supports having grooves crosswise to a longitudinal direction, said grooves being substantially equal distances apart from each other and said inductor supports being separate forming discontinuity points between adjacent grooves of adjacent inductor supports with a greater distance between two adjacent grooves of adjacent inductor supports than two adjacent grooves of the same inductor support;
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• three linear motor lines, each of said motor lines being wound into a winding having a meandering shape with a section of each meandering shape supported and located in a respective one of said grooves of one of said supports, said windings having winding heads with each winding head having a length defined by said section of each meandering shape in said grooves situated a distance apart, lengths of said winding heads of the three linear motor lines being extended beyond said length at each discontinuity point between two adjacent sections supported in respective grooves of two different inductor supports.

A linear motor for a linear drive mechanism of a magnetic levitation transport system, the linear motor comprising:

• a plurality of inductor supports arranged in a row, each of said supports having grooves crosswise to a longitudinal direction, said grooves of each of said inductor supports being substantially equal distances apart from each other, said at least two adjacent inductor supports being spaced apart forming a discontinuity of spacing between adjacent grooves of said adjacent inductor supports with a greater distance between adjacent grooves of adjacent inductor supports than two adjacent grooves of the same inductor support;
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• three linear motor lines wound into windings with periodic reversals of direction defining sections crosswise to a longitudinal direction and winding heads provided substantially periodically extending in a direction along each of said inductor support with each crosswise section of each winding located in a grove of a support to define a head length and with a portion of each winding extending across said discontinuity to form an extended winding head between two adjacent inductor supports, said extended winding head having an extended head length that is greater than said head length with a reversal of direction not corresponding to said periodic reversals.