US 4,272,085 AGranted

Cylinder head gasket for a liquid cooled internal combustion engine

AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsTetsuzo Fujikawa, Michio Nishimura

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Abstract

A cylinder head gasket for internal combustion engine, which comprises a gasket body formed with hole for combustion chambers and holes for coolant passages is disclosed, in which protruded portions of high thermal conductivity metal whose thickness is larger than the thickness of the gasket body are provided around the hole for combustion chamber and elastic seal members whose thickness is larger than the thickness of the protruded portions are provided around each of the holes for coolant passages. The gasket body may be made of a metal of high thermal conductivity. In case where the gasket body is made of a material permeable to liquid, the seal members may be provided such that they cover peripheral walls of the holes for coolant passages, respectively.

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Dependent claims

A cylinder head gasket to be disposed between a cylinder block and a cylinder head of a liquid cooled internal combustion engine, comprising a gasket body formed with at least one hole for a combustion chamber of the engine and at least one hole for a coolant passage, protruded portions of a metal having a relatively high thermal conductivity, said protruded portions being disposed around a periphery of said hole for the combustion chamber such that they protrude vertically from opposite surfaces of said gasket body and adapted to be in pressure contact with the cylinder block and the cylinder head and at least one seal member of an elastic and liquid impermeable material, said seal member fixed to and arranged on opposite surfaces of said gasket body around a periphery of said hole for the coolant passage, said seal member protruding vertically from said opposite surfaces of said gasket body, and the height of said seal member being larger than that of said protruded portion.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.