Metal gasket assembly with shims

Abstract

A metal gasket assembly for a cylinder head comprises: a metal substrate having a predetermined shape with apertures including cylinder openings, bolt holes, coolant openings and lubricant openings, which metal substrate being provided with half-beads in regions adjacent to the cylinder openings and full-beads in regions therearound; a metal sub-plate having the same planar configuration with and being thinner than the metal substrate; ring-shaped shims attached to the metal sub-plate in regions corresponding to the half-beads of the metal substrate; and a metal by-plate having the same planar configuration with the metal substrate and provided with full-beads in regions corresponding to the full-beads of the metal substrate; which metal substrate, metal sub-plate with shims and metal by-plate forming a laminated gasket assembly.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.