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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2002
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2000
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A plate-shaped gasket is inserted between a plurality of parts with an edge of the plate-shaped gasket offset such that portions of mutually joining surfaces of the plurality of parts to be joined to each other (a cylinder block and a cylinder head , as well as a chain cover and a sprocket casing portion in the embodiment) directly oppose each other, and a liquid gasket is filled in a gap G formed by the directly opposing portions of the plurality of parts and the offset edge (an inner peripheral edge of a chain accommodating hole ) of the plate-shaped gasket. As a result, since the thickness of the liquid gasket can be determined by the thickness of the plate-shaped gasket, it becomes unnecessary to form a recessed portion for storing the liquid gasket by machining, so that the number of manufacturing steps is prevented from increasing.