Patent ID: 8430037

Claim:
A magnetically levitated railway comprising a track that contains a plurality of supports ( 2 ) located one behind the other in a direction of travel, which supports ( 2 ) are provided with stator cores ( 4 ) on both sides, at least one vehicle ( 1 ) that includes on both sides of support ( 2 ) at least one first magnet system ( 7 ) which at least one first magnet system ( 7 ), together with the corresponding stator cores ( 4 ), forms a longitudinal stator-linear motor, and that, during operation of the vehicle ( 1 ) on both sides of support ( 2 ), the at least one first magnet system ( 7 ) is situated at a distance from the stator cores ( 4 ) by a support gap in which the longitudinal stator-linear motor creates a state of levitation, and first sound-damping elements that are installed on both sides of the supports ( 2 ) beneath a respective top flange 2 ( b ), wherein the first sound-damping elements are composed of voluminous sound-damping bodies ( 14 ) located on the supports ( 2 ) in a position that, when the vehicle ( 1 ) passes by the position, the sound-damping bodies ( 14 ) are within a space between the supports ( 2 ) and the first magnet system ( 7 ), and wherein on both sides of the support ( 2 ) second sound-damping bodies ( 15 ) composed of voluminous sound-damping bodies ( 14 ) are installed on the vehicle ( 1 ) on the side of the at least one first magnet system ( 7 ) facing away from the supports ( 2 ).