Patent ID: 7980563

Claim:
A flat gasket for sealing a seal gap between component sealing faces, which can be pressed against the flat gasket, of engine components that comprise a cylinder head, an engine block, a chain case lower part adjacent to the engine block and/or a chain case upper part adjacent to the cylinder head wherein one of the component sealing faces is formed by the engine block as well as optionally by the chain case lower part, another of the component sealing faces is formed by the cylinder head as well as optionally by the chain case upper part, and a joint is formed between the chain case lower part and the engine block or between the chain case upper part and the cylinder head, and wherein the flat gasket is formed as a cylinder head gasket with a chain case sealing region, wherein the flat gasket comprises at least one first gasket layer as well as a second gasket layer which is adjacent to the first gasket layer, wherein at least one joint-crossing elastomeric sealing element is disposed at the first gasket layer, which element is formed from a sealing material which is applied to the first gasket layer and can be cured in situ, wherein at least one joint-crossing cut-out is provided at the second gasket layer and so disposed relative to the elastomeric sealing element that the elastomeric sealing element extends through the cut-out when the flat gasket is in the fitted state, wherein the fiat gasket comprises at least one overflow space disposed to receive excess, as yet uncured sealing material of the sealing element during assembly of the flat gasket and is disposed at least partly laterally next to the sealing element—viewed in a plan view onto the flat gasket—when the flat gasket is in the unfitted, unpressed state, wherein the at least one cut-out is arranged below or above the at least one elastomeric sealing element when the flat gasket is in the unfitted, unpressed condition, wherein the second gasket layer is provided with a bead, wherein the elastomeric sealing element extends beyond at least one edge of the cut-out in a longitudinal direction of the bead, and wherein the bead at the second gasket layer is interrupted in its longitudinal direction by the cut-out.