Patent ID: 7156401

Claim:
A gasket well/gasket combination for use in a header/tank assembly for a heat exchanger, said combination comprising: a gasket well having a generally rectangular-shaped outline in one of a header plate and tank of said header/tank assembly, said gasket well defined by a base wall and an outer side wall extending upward from the base wall, said outer side wall including a pair of upwardly opening slots, one of said slots located at a first corner of said gasket well, the other of said slots located at another corner of said gasket well diagonally opposite said first corner, each of said slots having a slot width (SW); and an elastomeric gasket shaped to be received in said gasket well and compressed between said base wall and the other of said header plate and said tank to seal said tank to said header plate, said gasket including a seal bead and a pair of oppositely positioned locating features, each of said locating features including a tab extending outwardly from said seal bead to a terminal end of said tab, said tab having a transverse width that does not increase from the seal bead to the terminal end, said transverse width being larger than said slot width (SW) with the tab in an undeformed state, said gasket receivable in said gasket well in an installed state with each of said tabs pinched in a corresponding one of said slots across said transverse width to retain said gasket in said gasket well.