| CPC E02D 11/00 (2013.01) [H02K 19/02 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |

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1. A vibratory hammer for driving or retracting sheet piles, pipes or other elements into or from soil, said vibratory hammer comprising:
a vibration case;
an even number of pairwise arranged eccenter weights, which are rotationally mounted in the vibration case;
at least one synchronous electric motor as a drive motor for driving the rotation of the eccenter weights;
a clamp attached to the vibration case, said clamp comprising gripping jaws for gripping the sheet piles, pipes or other elements; and
a yoke for suspending the vibratory hammer from a hoist cable or the like, said yoke being connected to the vibration case via one or more vibration damping elements, wherein the at least one synchronous electric motor is a permanent-magnet synchronous motor, specifically a PMSM type motor.
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