Patent ID: 7654312

Claim:
Heating and/or cooling system for a motor vehicle with a combustion engine and a catalytic converter arranged in the exhaust gas path of the combustion engine, comprising a burner attached before the catalytic converter to the exhaust gas path of the combustion engine as well as a heat exchanger for transmitting heat generated in the burner to a heating and/or cooling circuit of the motor vehicle, characterized in that the heat exchanger ( 12 ) is arranged behind the catalytic converter ( 8 ) in the exhaust gas path ( 6 ) of the combustion engine ( 4 ) and can be acted upon through the catalytic converter ( 8 ) with hot combustion gases from the burner ( 10 ), characterized in that the heat exchanger ( 12 ) is attached to an absorption type refrigerating machine ( 20 ) of an air conditioner of the motor vehicle, and characterized in that the absorption type refrigerating machine is configured to cool an exhaust gas recirculation system or exhaust gas recirculation line of the combustion engine.