A toroidally shaped magnetic device with distortion-free exit and access
ports provides toroidal magnetic ionic drive systems for vehicles that
achieve a more operationally efficient, uniform and stronger radial
magnetic field. This is accomplished by magnetizing a group of magic
cylinder sections in a cylindrical direction and affixing them to a
uniformly magnetized cylindrical shell with no magnetic field in its
central cavity to produce composite cylindrical magnetic segments
magnetized in a cylindrical direction with a central cavity and a uniform
interior magnetic field. The composite segments are then bent into a
toroidal tube and configured in such a way that longitudinal slots can be
removed from the outer surface for exit and access ports. Other
embodiments include a magnetic propulsion system for space vehicles and
methods for magnetizing the toroidal ionic drive structure for a vehicle.