Reluctance motor with strong rotor anisotropy

A new rotor design for the synchronous reluctance motor is presented. It has something in common with the segmented and axially laminated rotors that have been developed in the past. The new rotor achieves strong anisotropy by interleaving magnetic iron lamination with nonmagnetic spacers of approximately equal thickness. It is shown that the magnetizing inductance is very much lower in the quadrature than the direct axis and that this rotor has the potential to develop more torque than earlier machines. Laboratory results are presented, and the machine is compared with an induction motor in the same frame