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A reluctance machine system including a reluctance machine having a rotor and a stator including at least one phase winding and a full pitch auxiliary filed winding where constant currents are established in the auxiliary field winding to assist in the establishment of a magnetic field in the machin

A reluctance machine system including a reluctance machine having a rotor and a stator including at least one phase winding and a full pitch auxiliary filed winding where constant currents are established in the auxiliary field winding to assist in the establishment of a magnetic field in the machine so as to improve the machine's performance.

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[ I claim as my invention:] [1.] A reluctance machine system comprising:(a) a reluctance machine including:a stator defining a plurality of stator poles;a rotor defining a plurality of rotor poles, the rotor being mounted for rotation with respect to the stator, the stator poles and the rotor poles

[ I claim as my invention:] [1.] A reluctance machine system comprising:(a) a reluctance machine including:a stator defining a plurality of stator poles;a rotor defining a plurality of rotor poles, the rotor being mounted for rotation with respect to the stator, the stator poles and the rotor poles being configured such that the total area of overlap between the rotor and stator poles is constant as the rotor rotates with respect to the stator;at least N, separately energizable phase windings, where N is an integer greater than 2, each phase winding including a plurality of winding coils, where each winding coil surrounds a stator pole;a full pitch auxiliary field winding, the auxiliary field winding comprising one or more full pitched coils, where each full pitched coil encircles a group of N stator poles, and wherein the group includes, for each of the N phase windings, a stator pole surrounded by a winding coil from that phase winding; and(b) a power converter coupled to the reluctance machine, the power converter including:a DC bus;power switching devices coupling the phase windings to the DC bus for providing phase energization currents to the phase windings; andcircuitry for providing continuous energization current to the auxiliary field winding, wherein the magnetic flux produced by the auxiliary field winding is relatively constant.