FAULT TOLERANT FLUX SWITCHING MACHINE

摘要

A stator for a flux switching permanent magnet machine has multiple pole pieces with windings around each pole piece. Each pole piece and the windings associated with each pole piece are physically separated from the other pole pieces and the associated windings by a separator. The purpose of the separator is to induce for each pole piece a higher self inductance profile than the mutual inductance profile for the other pole pieces. The separator substantially isolates the adjacent poles pieces electrically from each other, and may be of ferromagnetic material.