In order to suppress the torque ripple in the switched reluctance motor, a new stator pole shape was proposed. It changed the traditional uniform air gap into nonuniform air gap of two sections. An 11 kW, 1 000 r/min, 12/8 SRM as the prototype, the structure was validated and optimized through establishing the twodimensional fieldcircuit coupled timestepping finite element model. The results showed that the structure could reduce the torque ripple effectively with ensuring the efficiency of the motor unchanged. A useful reference to promote the level of design and operation of switched reluctance motor was provided.