摘要 |
A coil in a coil unit for a linear motor is evenly cooled in the lengthwise direction to reduce an influence of heat on the outside from the coil unit. The coil unit includes the plate-shape coil extending in a traveling direction of the linear motor, a shell for internally storing the coil while maintaining a predetermined gap to the coil, and leading a refrigerant through the gap to cool the coil, a main flow passage formed inside the shell while extending in a lengthwise direction X of the coil, and leading the refrigerant supplied from the outside into itself, and a plurality of branch flow passages formed at a predetermined interval in the lengthwise direction X on the main flow passage for leading out the refrigerant led into the main flow passage in a widthwise direction Y of the coil. The refrigerant led out from the branch flow passages after having flown through the main flow passage flows into the gap between the shell and the coil, and cools the coil along the widthwise direction Y.
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