Air filter element having a circumferentially protruding clean air seal, filter housing and air filter

An air filter comprising:

• a filter housing comprising
• a filter pot and a cover,
• wherein the filter pot comprises a side wall and a clean air outlet arranged at the side wall and a raw air inlet arranged at the side wall;
• an air filter element arranged in the filter housing, the air filter element comprising:
• a filter medium spaced radially away from and surrounding annularly a longitudinal axis of the air filter element;
• wherein radial, as used herein, is a direction transverse to the longitudinal axis;
• wherein axial, as used herein, is a direction defined by the longitudinal axis;
• a first end disk at a first end face of the air filter element,
• wherein the filter medium is embedded in the first end disk at the first end face;
• a clean air seal configured to seal a raw side of the air filter against a clean side of the air filter;
• wherein the clean air seal and the first end disk are embodied together as one piece;
• wherein the clean air seal is embodied to continuously radially protrude radially outwardly past the filter medium;
• the filter element further comprising:
• a central opening formed in the first end disk and opening into an interior of the filter medium;
• and
• a bead arranged on the first end disk, the bead projecting axially outwardly away from the first end disk and the filter medium, the bead arranged about an outer circumference of the central opening and surrounds at least half of the outer circumference of the central opening;
• wherein the clean air seal is arranged, held and clamped, between the filter pot and the cover.

A filter housing comprising:

• an air filter element comprising:
• a filter medium spaced radially away from and surrounding annularly a longitudinal axis of the air filter element;
• a first end disk at a first end face of the air filter element,
• wherein the filter medium is embedded in the first end disk at the first end face;
• a clean air seal configured to seal a raw side of the filter housing against a clean side of the filter housing;
• a central opening formed in the first end disk and opening into an interior of the filter medium;
• a bead arranged on the first end disk at an outer circumference of the central opening, the bead surrounding at least half of the outer circumference of the central opening, the bead projecting at the central opening in an axial direction relative to the longitudinal axis outwardly away from the filter medium;
• a filter pot and a cover for receiving the air filter element,
• wherein the filter pot comprises a side wall having a clean air outlet arranged at the side wall and a raw air inlet arranged at the side wall,
• wherein the raw air inlet is arranged adjacent to the clean air outlet;
• an air guide arranged in an interior of the cover, the air guide comprising two outlet openings which align with and communicate with the clean air outlet in the side wall of the filter pot.