low cost dichtungsanordnung and method of manufacture

摘要

A seal assembly (1) having an elastomeric sealing element (2), and an annular supporting structure (4) defined frontally by a first (18) and an opposite second (19) radial face, and embedded at least partly in a supporting portion (5) of the elastomeric sealing element; the supporting structure (4) having two series of perforations (20, 21) formed through the faces and arranged in respective rings at opposite, respectively outer (14) and inner (15), annular peripheral portions of the supporting structure; the supporting portion (5) of the elastomeric sealing element having first and second retaining portions (22, 24) molded, with no adhesive promoter or adhesive applied beforehand, on to both faces of the annular peripheral portions (14, 15) of the supporting structure, and connected, between the two faces, by braces (23, 25) molded through the perforations (20, 21), and, on one face, by at least one brace (26) connecting the retaining portions (22b) on the radially outer annular peripheral portion with those (24b) on the radially inner annular peripheral portion of the supporting structure. IMAGE