any reinforcing components devices or shapes on the weak side of an array to prevent any loss of flux due to loss of magnet material volumes displaced by said reinforcing other materials component shapes and component sizes than those detailed in the drawings and descriptions of this application may be utilized in the practice of this invention without departing from the scope of the invention with reference now to fig1 there is shown a standard halbach array 10 of magnets 12 14 16 18 held together by an adhesive with the like with each magnet 12 14 16 18 being unnaturally aligned with an adjacent magnet 12 14 16 18 as indicated by arrows 20 22 24 26 which indicate the direction of the north pole of each magnet 12 14 16 18 in a conventional halbach array 10 the poles of the magnets 12 14 16 18 are arranged at 90 u00b0 orientations from one another as hereinabove noted this array 10 of magnets 12 14 16 18 may separate due to failure of the bond therebetween this problem is solved by the reinforced permanent magnet array 30 in accordance with the present invention as illustrated into fig2 this array 30 includes a plurality of permanent magnets 32 34 36 38 unnaturally aligned with north poles being indicated by arrows 42 44 while shown abutting one another the magnets 32 34 36 38 may be separated by spacers depending upon the application of the magnet array members 48 50 which may be rods or bars of any suitable cross section are embedded in the surfaces.