MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517051260 A) filed by Jacobs Vehicle Systems, Inc., Bloomfield, U.S.A., on May 28, for 'shutdown control of internal combustion engine comprising lost motion component.'
Inventor(s) include Janak, Robb; Baltrucki, Justin D; Swanbon, Bruce; and Hodgkinson, Eric.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Control of engine shutdown of an internal combustion engine comprising a plurality of cylinders and, for each of the plurality of cylinders, a hydraulically controlled lost motion component operatively connected to an engine valve corresponding to the cylinder, is achieved when an engine controller determines that shutdown of the internal combustion engine has been requested. Responsive to the request for shutdown, the engine controller initiates or continues cylinder deactivation operation for each of at least one cylinder of the plurality of cylinders. The initiation or continuation of the cylinder deactivation operation for each of the at least one cylinder comprises, for an input to the hydraulically controlled lost motion component for each of at least one engine valve corresponding to the cylinder, operating the input to provide the cylinder deactivation operation for a duration at least long enough to complete shutdown of the internal combustion engine."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 30, 2023, under International application No.PCT/IB2023/062092.
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