Patent ID: 8359981

Claim:
A magnetic levitation vehicle comprising: a nose section and at least one further section coupled to said nose section, said nose section comprising: a plurality of guiding magnets arranged one behind the other in a direction of travel; and a plurality of control circuits assigned to said guiding magnets, wherein the guiding magnets are at least partly provided with cores having two or more winding levels and with several windings arranged in the winding levels, lying one behind the other in the direction of travel and forming magnet poles, wherein at least two windings each lying immediately next to each other or above each other are electrically connected in series with one of the control circuits assigned thereto, said nose section being provided with a zone free of guiding magnets in a middle area, the guiding magnets in a front portion of the nose section lying at the front in the direction of travel and with respect to the middle area being at least partly provided with a larger number of windings than the guiding magnets in a rearward portion of the nose section lying more rearwardly in the direction of travel and with respect to the middle area such that at least one magnet in said front portion comprises more windings than any magnet in the rearward portion, wherein a further guiding magnet is provided at a transitional area between said nose section and the at least one further section coupled to said nose section, wherein the windings of the guiding magnet in the transitional area are arranged under said nose section and the further section partially attributed to said nose section and the further section respectively, wherein a total number of windings of said nose section lying upstream of said zone free of guiding magnets in the direction of travel is greater than a total number of windings of the nose section lying downstream of said zone free of guiding magnets including all of the windings in the transitional area located under the nose section.