US 11,905,917 B2
Fuel-water separator filter assembly with axial sealing member
Wassem Abdalla, Fishers, IN (US); Nikhil Manohar Kalbande, Cookeville, TN (US); and Vaibhav Pimpalte, Pune (IN)
Assigned to CUMMINS FILTRATION INC., Nashville, TN (US)
Filed by Cummins Filtration Inc., Nashville, TN (US)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/486,304.
Claims priority of application No. 202041042334 (IN), filed on Sep. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0099058 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. F02M 37/34 (2019.01); F02M 37/24 (2019.01); B01D 35/30 (2006.01)
CPC F02M 37/34 (2019.01) [B01D 35/306 (2013.01); F02M 37/24 (2019.01); B01D 2201/291 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A filter assembly, comprising:
a housing defining an internal volume, an opening defined at a bottom end of the housing;
an adaptor coupled to the bottom end of the housing;
a filter element disposed within the housing, the filter element comprising:
a filter media defining a central channel, and
an endcap coupled to a filter media bottom end of the filter media proximate to the adaptor; and
a sealing member disposed around the adaptor, the sealing member configured to form an axial seal with the endcap and the housing, the sealing member including a sealing member surface abutting the endcap, thereby forming an axial seal with the endcap.