a selected number of rotor poles about the rotor shaft and a plurality of support bars disposed intermittently between the boat shaped segments each segment of lamination is boat shaped with angular acuity facing towards the stator application_number US 27284805 A description the disclosed technology is a synchronous reluctance machine 10 fig1 that has a selectively shaped rotor 12 and a stator 11 the stator 11 has a plurality of slots sized to receive armature windings the selectively shaped rotor 12 of the synchronous reluctance machine 10 is configured in fig1 as a four pole machine 14 15 16 and 17 it is understood the synchronous reluctance machine 10 may if desired be configured with as many poles as desired the configuration illustrated in fig1 is for illustration purposes only each individual pole of the synchronous reluctance machine 10 fig1 is of identical construction for example synchronous reluctance machine 10 fig1 has four poles but for design reasons or performance requirements the synchronous reluctance machine may have six identical poles the exemplary pole 14 fig2 is constructed from a plurality of axially extending radially positioned boat shaped laminated segments 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 and 39 the.