Patent ID: 6139024
Filing Date: 2000-10-31
Classification: F16J

Abstract:
A cylinder head gasket which comprises:plural thin metal plates (4,5,6) including two flat outermost thin metal plates (4,6) having inner and outer surfaces; and at least one inner thin metal plate (5), having first and second surfaces, sandwiched between the inner surfaces of the two outermost thin metal plates (4,6), each of said plural thin metal plates (4,5,6) having at least cylinder bores and fluid-passing bores, and being laminated to form a structure of laminated thin plates;the inner and outer surfaces of each of said two outermost thin metal plates (4,6) of the laminated plural thin metal plates being substantially fully coated with a composite material to form uniform thickness coating layers (7,8); andthe first and second surfaces of the inner thin metal plate (5 or 35a) being not coated with the composite material so that adjacent sides of respective thin metal plates (4 and 6) are laminated with a single coating layer (8) sandwiched therebetween.