A FILTER ELEMENT FOR THE FILTERING OF FLUID WITH A FOLDED FILTER MATERIAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide stability and desirable fluid characteristics of air streams by reducing cost in a fluid-filtering filter element.SOLUTION: This invention relates to a filter element 20 for filtering a fluid 18, in particular, air and has a filter element using a folding filter medium 26 where a folding edge 32 of a folding part 28 defines a filter element inflow surface 40 on the unprocessed side, and filter element outflow surface 42 on the clean side. The filter element 20 has at least one filter medium stabilization element 48, and the filter medium stabilization element 48 has a stabilization part 50 having an outer shape 51 adapted to the outer shape 53 of the filter medium 26. The stabilization part 50 is positioned on contact with the filter medium 26 to stabilize the filter medium 26. The filter medium stabilization element 48 is positioned on the opposite side of the stabilization part 50 to project from the inflow surface 40 on the unprocessed side and from the outflow surface 42 on the clean side. Further, this invention relates to a filter using the filter element 20.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3