When coils of a vacuum pump unit are excited by energization, a piston
equipped with magnets reciprocates in a cylinder. Thus, air is sucked in
from an outlet passage of a diffuser of an ejector, and air discharged
from the vacuum pump unit is supplied to an inlet of a nozzle of the
ejector. Consequently, a fast jet occurs in a throat portion of the
nozzle, and a negative pressure of higher degree of vacuum than that of
the suction negative pressure of the vacuum pump unit is produced at a
vacuum port of the ejector. The negative pressure is supplied from a
negative pressure supply port. The ejector can supply a negative pressure
of high degree of vacuum while reducing the load on the vacuum pump unit.