Metallic flat gasket

The metallic flat gasket according to 10, wherein the camber all in all shows an arch-shaped or trapezoidal cross-sectional profile.

A metallic flat gasket with at least one metallic gasket layer, which is mainly flat and shows a first and second surface, wherein a plane of the gasket runs centered between said flat areas, wherein a camber is formed within the gasket layer, which protrudes over the first surface of the gasket layer and which has a larger length than width, wherein the camber possesses a first level given by a virtual level, which runs in parallel to the plane of the gasket through a foot of the camber on the first surface of the gasket layer and a second level, given by a further virtual level, which runs through the highest point of the camber and also parallel to the plane of the gasket of the gasket layer, wherein the camber possesses a slope area that ascends between the two levels, comprising:

• the slope area is provided with an undulating structure such that it comprises at least two waves in the direction between the two levels each with a wave crest and a wave trough;
• wherein the difference of the heights, with which the crest points of two adjacent wave crests protrude beyond the first level, decreases in the direction of the crest point of the camber.