Electric motors equipped with a single-phase or three-phase stator winding for generating a rotating field. The rotor is not wound and not rotationally symmetrically grooved. It consists of a soft magnetic material (e.g. iron). Due to their design, reluctance motors feature both asynchronous and synchronous speed/torque characteristics. Conventional reluctance motors are suitable for low powers, high speeds, for mains operation, and for frequency-controlled group drives connected to an inverter.
A special type is the
switched reluctance motor.
