Patent ID: 8246054

Claim:
A cylinder head gasket, comprising: a functional layer having at least one combustion chamber opening and a sealing bead embossment encircling said combustion chamber opening; a mid-layer having at least one combustion chamber opening and at least two fixing openings spaced from said at least one combustion opening of said mid layer; a compression limiter layer disposed on one side of said mid layer and sandwiched between said mid-layer and said functional layer and extending across said sealing bead embossment of said functional layer, said compression limiter including at least one combustion opening that is aligned with said at least one combustion openings of said functional layer and of said mid-layer; and wherein said compression limiter layer includes at least two eyelet portions that extend into each of said respective fixing openings and wrap around to an opposite surface of said mid-layer so as to line said fixing openings and fix said compression limiter layer to said mid-layer, and further wherein said functional layer includes at least two recesses aligned with said respective fixing openings and eyelets to accommodate said eyelets of said compression limiter without increasing the total thickness of said gasket in the region of said eyelets.