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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2006
Filed:
May. 10, 2002
Marko Weirich, Mannheim, DE;
Marko Weirich, Mannheim, DE;
DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
1. Motor vehicle having an activated carbon filter and method for regenerating an activated carbon filter. 2. A motor vehicle () is proposed, comprising an, in particular, direct-injection internal combustion engine (), a fuel tank () and an aeration device () for the fuel tank that comprises an activated carbon filter () and a regeneration device () for regenerating the activated carbon filter, and a method for regenerating an activated carbon filter in a motor vehicle comprising an, in particular, direct-injection internal combustion engine. 2.2. According to the invention, a regeneration device () is provided in the motor vehicle and is assigned a control device () which undertakes an activation of the regeneration device () in the overrun mode of the internal combustion engine (); for the method, provision is made for an overrun mode of the internal combustion engine to be detected in one method step and for a regeneration device which is assigned to the activated carbon filter and is intended for purging the activated carbon filter with fresh air to be activated in a subsequent method step. 2.3. To be used in motor vehicles, in particular passenger vehicles.