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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2022
Mahle International Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Michael Braunheim, Goeppingen, DE;
Mahle International GmbH, , DE;
Abstract
A fuel filter element, which may be selectively arranged in a filter housing and may separate in the filter housing an untreated space communicating with an inlet and a return line of the housing from a treated space communicating with an outlet of the housing, may include at least one end disk, and at least one closure element, which in an operationally ready state of the fuel filter may close off the return line. The closure element may protrude eccentrically axially away from the at least one end disk. The closure element may have a seal on a surrounding surface and that, in the operationally ready state, may be in contact with a surface of the return line. In the operationally ready state, a portion of the closure element may be located in a filter chamber of the filter housing and another portion of the closure element may be located in the return line.