Patent ID: 8535519

Claim:
A filter element of a motor vehicle fuel filter, comprising: a filter body for installation into a filter housing, said filter body having a raw unfiltered side and a clean filtered side, said filter body including; a terminal disk having a through opening; a circumferential elastic seal secured to said terminal disk and extending circumferentially around an outer circumference of said terminal disk; a cylindrical filter material arranged into a plurality of folds within said filter body; wherein two neighboring folds of said filter material are spread apart in a circumferential direction wider than other pairs of neighboring folds of said plurality of folds to form an installation space between said two neighboring folds; and a block-shaped heating element extending substantially parallel with an axis of said cylindrical filter media and arranged in said installation space to be spaced from and between said two neighboring folds at a radially outer side of said filter material; wherein said heating element is positionally correlated with said through opening of said terminal disk; wherein said heating element is arranged to heat fuel in said filter body; wherein said filter element is configured for use in said filter housing.