Patent ID: 9403418
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: B60H

Claim Text:
1. A method for controlling a recuperation power of a recuperation-capable drive of a motor vehicle, the method comprising: determining a future temperature-control expenditure that represents the energy required to cool or heat the motor vehicle; and conducting to a temperature-control device a temperature-control proportion of a recuperation power that has been extracted from kinetic energy of the motor vehicle, conducting a buffer proportion of the temperature-control proportion to a buffer, wherein as the temperature-control expenditure rises the buffer proportion conducted to the buffer decreases, the temperature-control device using the temperature-control proportion of the converted recuperation power to heat or to cool the passenger compartment of the motor vehicle, controlling the magnitude of the temperature-control proportion as a function of the determined future temperature-control expenditure, such that the temperature-control proportion conducted to the temperature-control device is increased in response to a rise in the temperature-control expenditure.