Filter element

A filter element, including:

• a hollow filter media body consisting of:
• a filter media for filtering a fluid, the filter media circumferentially surrounding and closed circumferentially about a longitudinal element axis and having an open interior region (36) concentric with and arranged on the longitudinal element axis;
• wherein axial, as used herein, is a direction parallel to the longitudinal element axis;
• wherein radial, as used herein, is a direction transverse to the longitudinal element axis;
• the hollow filter media body of filter media, having:
• a radially outer surface of the filter media of the hollow filter media body forming an inflow face;
• a radially inner surface of the filter media, within the open interior region (36) of the hollow filter media body, forming an outflow face;
• a first axial end of the filter media hollow body;
• and
• an opposite second axial end of the filter media hollow body;
• the filter element including:
• a first end plate (20) arranged directly on the first axial end of the filter media hollow body;
• a second end plate (21) arranged directly on the opposite second axial end of the filter media hollow body, the filter media extending continuously from the first end plate to the second end plate;
• an air outflow fluid line (16) formed as a tube and connected to the first end plate, the air outflow fluid line (16) extending axially through an opening in the second end plate into the open interior region of the hollow filter media body;
• and
• wherein the air outflow fluid line (16) is securely connected to the first end plate.