Patent ID: 8441158

Claim:
A linear motor comprising: a primary part in form of a cylinder or cuboid and having a plurality of windings sequentially arranged in an axial direction and subdivided in the axial direction into groups having an identical number of windings, each of the windings associated with one phase of a multi-phase system, with the primary part being divided in the axial direction into a first section and a second section, wherein an identical number of windings in the second section is associated with each of the phases; and a secondary part having a secondary part length, wherein an axial length of the first section corresponds to the secondary part length, wherein a sequence of the association of the windings with the phases in combination with a winding sense of the windings in at least one of the groups in the axial direction differs from the sequence of the association of the windings with the phases in combination with a winding sense of the windings in each of the other groups within the first section of the primary part, and wherein the sequence of the association of the windings with the phases in combination with a winding sense of the windings in the second section corresponds to the association of the windings with the phases in combination with a winding sense of the windings in a subsection of the first section having an axial length identical to that of the second section and is arranged at the end of the first section facing the second section.