Torque improvement in reluctance machines

摘要

A method and apparatus for increasing the starting torque of a two-phase switched reluctance motor is disclosed. The method involves the use of a specially constructed rotor position transducer with two sensing devices, each associated with one phase winding of the two-phase motor. The signals from the rotor position transducer are provided to a motor controller that energises each winding whenever energisation of the winding will produce torque in the desired direction.