An object is to provide a metal gasket that can form a wide contact width for a counterpart sealing face and that can achieve excellent sealing properties even when a blow hole is generated in the counterpart sealing face, and the object is achieved by a metal gasket having a bead portion to be in contact with a counterpart sealing face to form a sealing portion, formed on a gasket main body. The bead portion includes an arc portion that is convex toward the counterpart sealing face and hem-rising portions that each obliquely rise from the gasket main body toward the arc portion, on both hems of the arc portion. A connection portion between the arc portion and the hem-rising portion is formed to be convex toward a convex side of the bead portion. Plastic distortion for an overall width of the arc portion is lower than that of the connection portion. A contact pressure distribution in the arc portion in a compression state has a shape that is flat and wide in a width direction of the arc portion.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a sealing structure for a casing that can reduce the number of used gaskets and achieve further weight reduction, with the sealing function of the gaskets secured. The object is solved by including: a case 2 having an opened top; a cover 3 attached to the top of the case 2 to form a fluid flow path therein; a center plate 5 interposed between the case 2 and the cover 3 and partitions an inner space into the side of the case 2 and the side of the cover 3; and a gasket 4, which is disposed between the case 2 and the cover 3, and forming the center plate 5 so as to have a size that is within an inner peripheral side relative to a sealing line 41 of the gasket 4 and stacking this center plate on the gasket 4, and attaching the cover 3 to the top of the case 2 with the stacked gasket 4 and center plate 5 sandwiched there between to compress the gasket 4 with the mutual butting surfaces between the case 2 and the cover 3.

A gasket material to be mounted in a vehicle engine, wherein, on one or both sides of a steel plate, a rubber layer is formed via a coating film including a reaction product of an acid component and a metal or a reaction product of an acid component and a metal compound, and at least one selected from zirconia, alumina and titania.

The present invention has an object of providing a sealing structure for a casing that suppresses the deformation of a center plate of a laminated gasket on a partition wall and ensures the compression amount of a bead on the partition wall, without the center plate being thickened. The object is achieved by a sealing structure including: a case 2, the interior of which is partitioned by a partition wall 25 into an upstream chamber 23 and a downstream chamber 24; a cover 3, which forms a flow path for a fluid that causes the upstream chamber 23 and the downstream chamber 24 to be communicated inside; and a laminated gasket 4, in which a first gasket 41, a center plate 43, and a second gasket 42 are laminated, and that is provided between a butting surface 22a of the case 2 and a butting surface 32a of the cover 3, in which the first gasket 41 and the second gasket 42 respectively include beads 41b and 42b along the butting surfaces 22a and 32a, and the first gasket 41 and the center plate 43 respectively include partition-wall sealing portions 41a and 43a along the partition wall 25, the partition-wall sealing portion 41a of the first gasket 41 includes the beads 41b, and the cover 3 is provided with a contact portion 34 that applies a contact force to the partition-wall sealing portion 43a of the center plate 43.

A gasket for a combustion chamber is provided. The gasket comprises an upper assembly including an upper combustion sealing section with a raised bead positioned between a first component and a second component adjacent to a combustion chamber and an upper fluid sealing section positioned between the first component and the second component at a location spaced away from the combustion chamber. The upper combustion sealing section includes an anti-fret coating on a metal layer, the upper fluid sealing section includes a synthetic rubber coating on a metal layer, and the upper combustion sealing section is greater in thickness than the upper fluid sealing section.

A gasket (20) is provided with a uniform thickness spacer layer (66) between two metal upper active layers (78, 80) and two lower active layers (82,84). Each of the layers has aligned openings. A first tab (158, 140) is formed from one of the upper active layers and is located in a first slot (168) in the spacer layer. A second tab (132, 150) is formed in a flange of one of the upper active layers and is located in a second slot (174) located in the spacer layer. A third tab (190, 208) is formed from one of the lower active layers and is located in a third slot (212) located in the spacer layer. A fourth tab (176, 194) is formed in a flange of one of the lower active layers and is located in a fourth slot (218) located in the spacer layer.

In a tabular metal gasket having a plurality of bolt holes, a seal bead is provided between bolt holes which are adjacent to each other, one end of the seal bead is connected to the one bolt hole and the other end of the seal bead is connected to the other bolt hole. The seal bead is formed into a gradually changing shape in which a width is the narrowest at the center portion between the bolt holes and the width is gradually enlarged from the center portion between the bolt holes toward the bolt holes, and satisfies the following expression (a): D>d≧W1 in which D is a diameter of a head seat surface of a fastening bolt which is inserted into the bolt hole, d is a diameter of the bolt hole, and W1 is the maximum width of the seal bead.

A gasket for a combustion chamber is provided. The gasket comprises an upper assembly including an upper combustion sealing section with a raised bead positioned between a first component and a second component adjacent to a combustion chamber and an upper fluid sealing section positioned between the first component and the second component at a location spaced away from the combustion chamber. The upper combustion sealing section includes an anti-fret coating on a metal layer, the upper fluid sealing section includes a synthetic rubber coating on a metal layer, and the upper combustion sealing section is greater in thickness than the upper fluid sealing section.

A seal structure has one metal gasket arranged between a pair of casings. The metal gasket is provided with a planate outer peripheral portion and a bead portion which is formed by rising up from an inner peripheral end portion of the outer peripheral portion, and is arranged so that the bead portion comes into contact with the one casing, and the outer peripheral portion comes into contact with the other casing. The bead portion elastically deforms so as to reduce its height and the outer peripheral portion elastically deforms on the basis of the elastic deformation of the bead portion, when the metal gasket is pinched by the pair of casings, and a leading end of the outer peripheral portion comes into contact with one casing at this time, whereby any gap in which salt water stays is not formed between one casing and the metal gasket.

A flat gasket has a functional layer with at least one media through-opening and at least one combustion chamber through-opening. A second layer, which is separate from the functional layer. The second layer has a media through-opening that corresponds to the media through-opening in the functional layer and a combustion chamber through-opening that corresponds to the combustion chamber through-opening in the functional layer. The functional layer has at least one combustion chamber sealing bead, which is preferably a full bead, for each combustion chamber through-opening. The second layer has an outer boundary sealing bead and an elastomer sealing profile for each media through-opening.