Arrangement for producing a vacuum in a motor vehicle system

US6412277B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Daimlerchrysler AG · US

Inventors

• Aurel Hagen · Stuttgart, DE
• Peter P. Klein · Phoenixville, US
• Lothar Mauz · Eßlingen, DE
• Arthur Pradt · Herrenberg, DE
• Bernhard Schweizer · Darmstadt, DE
• Klaus Wunderlich · Waiblingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 12, 2001
• Grant date: Jul 2, 2002
• Expiry date: Jan 12, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60T17/02
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

In an arrangement for producing a vacuum in a motor vehicle system including an internal combustion engine with an air intake system, a vacuum-operated power brake system for braking the vehicle and a fuel vapor adsorption system for collecting fuel vapors, a vacuum pump is provided which has a suction side in communication selectively with the vacuum operated power brake system and the fuel vapor adsorption system and a discharge side in communication with the air intake system of the internal combustion engine.