Attractive type electromagnet device for magnetic levitation running vehicles

Claim 1

In an attractive type electromagnet device for a magnetic levitation running vehicle including two longitudinal rows of electromagnets disposed beneath the vehicle, the rows being symmetrical to one another with respect to a vertical median plane passing through the vehicle in the direction of travel thereof, each row having a number of adjacent electromagnets, each electromagnet having an elongated core U-shaped in cross section and a coil wound around each of the legs of said U-shaped core, the improvement wherein both ends of said elongated core are slanted obliquely downwards for the entire length of the ends and the coil includes a straight portion aligned with the top of the core and bent portions downwardly directed at the slanted ends of the core wherein a gap not covered with the coil is formed adjacent to the upper portion of each of said slanted ends and adjacent electromagnets are closely positioned with each other at the upper pointed edges of said slanted ends of the cores and at the upper outer edges of downwardly directed bent portions of the coil.