Patent ID: 7994676

Claim:
A reluctance motor rotor configured to generate a magnetic field around the reluctance motor rotor to form magnetic circuits passing through the reluctance motor rotor to produce a driving force corresponding to a torque generated by changes in magnetic reluctance in the magnetic circuits, the reluctance motor rotor comprising: a first salient pole group including a plurality of first electrically energizable salient poles configured and arranged to be energized simultaneously with the first electrically energizable salient poles being spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the reluctance motor rotor; and a second salient pole group including a plurality of second electrically energizable salient poles configured and arranged to be energized simultaneously with the second electrically energizable salient poles being spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction of the reluctance motor rotor, the first salient pole group being magnetically insulated from the second salient pole group.