Patent ID: 11959432
Assignee: TULA ETECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Engines, pumps, turbines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 2:
3. A controller, as recited in claim 1, wherein:
the engine is configured such that a set of the exhaust valves, including the first exhaust valve, are activated or deactivated as a group;
fuel is cut off to each of the cylinders in the group in response to the detection of the exhaust valve actuation fault; and
the controller is further configured to direct an attempt to actuate the exhaust valves associated with each of the cylinders in the group, including the first cylinder during one or more engine cycles that follow the first working cycle wherein none of the cylinders in the group are fueled during the one or more engine cycles; and
wherein the determination of whether to resume operation of the first cylinder is treated as a determination of whether to resume operation of all of the cylinders in the group.