| CPC B60T 17/221 (2013.01) [B60T 13/26 (2013.01); B60T 13/683 (2013.01); B60T 2270/88 (2013.01)] | 25 Claims |

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1. A method for testing a shuttle valve in a pneumatic system, wherein the shuttle valve has a first shuttle valve port, a second shuttle valve port, and a third shuttle valve port, wherein a higher one of pressures prevailing at the first shuttle valve port and second shuttle valve port is modulated at the third shuttle valve port, the method comprising:
modulating a first pressure at the first shuttle valve port;
ascertaining a first value indicative of the first pressure at the first shuttle valve port;
comparing the first value indicative of the first pressure with a first predetermined comparison value, and, in the event of a deviation greater than a first tolerance: at least one of ascertaining and outputting a fault of the shuttle valve;
after the first shuttle valve port has been tested, ventilating said first shuttle valve port to ambient pressure;
thereafter, modulating a second pressure at the second shuttle valve port;
ascertaining a second value indicative of the second pressure at the second shuttle valve port;
comparing the second value indicative of the second pressure with a second predetermined comparison value, and,
in the event of a deviation greater than a second tolerance: at least one of ascertaining and outputting the fault of the shuttle valve.
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