# US 10,246,078 B2 · Time-optimized particle filter in hybrid vehicles > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,246,078 B2 - Document ID: US10246078B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/717,250 - Filed: 2017-09-27 - Published: 2018-03-29 - Granted: 2019-04-02 - Earliest claimed: 2016-09-29 - Assignees: Audi AG; Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft - Applicants: Audi AG; Volkswagen AG - Inventors: Herr Sebastian Hemminger; Florian Zink - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10246078B2 ## CPC - B60W 20/16: for reducing engine exhaust emissions - B60W 20/14: in conjunction with braking regeneration - B60W 30/18127: {Regenerative braking} - F01N 3/021: by means of filters - F01N 9/002: {of filter regeneration} - F02D 41/029: {the exhaust gas treating apparatus being a particulate filter} - H02J 7/1446: {in response to parameters of a vehicle} - F01N 2590/11: for hybrid vehicles - F02D 2041/026: {using an external load, e.g. by increasing generator load or by changing the gear ratio} - F02D 2200/0812: Particle filter loading - F02D 2250/24: by using an external load, e.g. a generator - Y02T 10/12: Improving ICE efficiencies - Y02T 10/40: Engine management systems - B60W: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT - F01N: GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL; GAS-FLOW SILENCERS OR EXHAUST APPARATUS FOR INTERNAL-COMBUSTION ENGINES (arrangements in connection with gas exhaust of propulsion units in vehicles B60K13/00; combustion-air intake silencers specially adapted for, or arranged on, internal-combustion engines F02M35/00; protecting against, or damping, noise in general G10K11/16) - F02D: CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES (vehicle fittings, acting on a single sub-unit only, for automatically controlling vehicle speed B60K31/00; conjoint control of vehicle sub-units of different type or different function, road vehicle drive control systems for purposes other than the control of a single sub-unit B60W) - H02J: ELECTRIC POWER NETWORKS; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS OR SYSTEMS FOR SUPPLYING OR DISTRIBUTING ELECTRIC POWER; SYSTEMS FOR STORING ELECTRIC ENERGY - Y02T: CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION ## Abstract A method for regenerating at least one particle filter of a vehicle with an electric drive and an internal combustion engine. The supplying of an energy storage device of the vehicle with electric energy is paused upon reaching a first charging threshold of at least one particle filter, so that the at least one particle filter is charged to a predetermined threshold value. Upon reaching a second charging threshold of the at least one particle filter by the internal combustion engine, an enthalpy that is introduced by the internal combustion engine into the at least one particle filter is increased relative to an enthalpy that is due to the charge that is associated with the operations. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for regenerating at least one particle filter of a motor vehicle provided with an electric drive and an internal combustion engine, comprising: supplying of electric energy to a storage device of the vehicle is paused when at least one particle filter is charged to a predetermined threshold, and wherein upon reaching a second charging threshold of the at least one particle filter, at least one particle filter is charged by the internal combustion engine in such a way that at least one particle filter must be regenerated, an enthalpy initiated by the internal combustion engine in at least one particle filter is increased in comparison to the enthalpy that is associated with operations, wherein the internal combustion engine is impacted in addition to the charge that is associated with operations also with a charge that is used to generate a charging current. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein for pausing the supplying of the energy storage device with electric energy, a brake system of the energy storage device is switched from a recuperation operation mode to a mechanical operation mode in which electric energy is not stored in the energy storage device, and wherein after a regeneration of the at least one particle filter, the operations of the brake system are switched from the mechanical operation mode to the recuperation operation mode. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein upon reaching the first charging threshold of the at least one particle filter, the supplying of electric energy is stopped for as long until a charging state of the energy storage device is reached in which the energy storage device is capable of absorbing an amount of electric energy that can be provided by the internal combustion engine during the regeneration of at least on particle filter, so that the internal combustion engine can be impacted upon reaching the second charging threshold with a charge corresponding to an amount of electric energy for increasing the enthalpy to be initiated in at least one particle filter. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein upon reaching the first charging threshold, at least one electric user is activated in order to increase the capacity of the energy storage device. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a drive battery of the motor vehicle is selected as an energy storage device. ### Claim 6 A vehicle with an electric drive, an internal combustion engine, comprising: at least one particle filter and a control device, wherein the control device is configured to pause supplying of electric energy to an energy storage device upon reaching a first charging threshold of at least one particle filter until it is charged to a predetermined threshold value, and wherein the internal combustion engine is charged upon reaching a second charging threshold of the at least one particle filter, so that the at least one particle filter is charged in such way that at least one particle filter must be regenerated, and wherein an enthalpy introduced by the internal combustion engine into the at least one particle filter is increased by impacting the internal combustion engine with a charge in addition to the charge that is associated with the operation of the internal combustion engine, which is used to generate a charging current for the energy storage device.