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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2016
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for regeneration a particulate filter in a motor vehicle having a self-control mode for the autonomous control of a drive mode and having a diesel particulate filter disposed in the exhaust system of a diesel engine of the motor vehicle are provided. In one example, a method for protecting the diesel particulate filter from overheating and premature aging comprises: starting the self-control mode, starting/verifying a regeneration process of the diesel particulate filter with combustion of the soot particles adsorbed on the diesel particulate filter, and monitoring a temperature of the diesel particulate filter and/or of the exhaust gas directed through the diesel particulate filter during the regeneration process. Depending on a monitoring result of the monitoring, a control for the self-control mode of the motor vehicle can be adjusted.