Pneumatic tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10435546-B2
Application number	US-201615756844-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 17, 2016
Priority date	Sep 30, 2015
Publication date	Oct 8, 2019
Grant date	Oct 8, 2019

Abstract

A pneumatic tire having a tire component prepared by use of a rubber composition according to the present invention which comprises: a polybitadiene (i) which satisfies conditions of (A) a Mooney viscosity (ML 1+4, 100° C. ) of 43 to 70, (B) a ratio (Tcp/ML 1+4, 100° C. ) of 5% by mass toluene solution viscosity (Tcp) to Mooney viscosity (ML 1+4, 100° C. ) of 0.9 to 1.7, (C) a stress relaxation time (T80), being a time until a torque is attenuated by 80% assuming that the torque at the end of ML 1+4, 100° C. measurement is 100%, of 10.0 to 40.0 seconds, (D) a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 2.50 to 4.00, and (F) a proportion of cis-structure in microstructural analysis of not more than 98 mol %; another rubber (ii); and a rubber reinforcing material (iii), is excellent in processability and properties of tire.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A pneumatic tire having a tire component prepared by use of a rubber composition comprising:
a polybutadiene (i) which satisfies conditions of:
(A) a Mooney viscosity (ML 1+4, 100° C. ) of 48 to 70,
(B) a ratio (Tcp/ML 1+4, 100° C. ) of 5% by mass toluene solution viscosity (Tcp) to Mooney viscosity (ML 1+4, 100° C. ) of 0.9 to 1.7,
(C) a stress relaxation time (T80), being a time until a torque is attenuated by 80% assuming that the torque at the end of ML 1+4, 100° C. measurement is 100%, of 10.0 to 40.0 seconds,
(D) a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of 2.50 to 4.00, and
(F) a proportion of cis-structure in microstructural analysis of not more than 98 mol %;
another rubber (ii); and
a rubber reinforcing material (iii).

2. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 , wherein the polybutadiene (i) further satisfies a condition of:
(E) a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 40.0×10 4 to 75.0×10 4 .

3. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 , wherein the polybutadiene (i) is produced by using a cobalt catalyst.

4. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 , wherein the other rubber (ii) comprises a natural rubber or an isoprene rubber.

5. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 , wherein the other rubber (ii) comprises a styrene-butadiene rubber.

6. The pneumatic tire of claim 5 , wherein a styrene content of the styrene-butadiene rubber is not less than 30% by mass.

7. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 , wherein the tire component is a base tread component.

8. The pneumatic tire of claim 7 , wherein a content of the rubber reinforcing material (iii) is 1 to 100 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (i)+(ii) which consists of 5 to 90 parts by mass of the polybutadiene (i) and 95 to 10 parts by mass of the other rubber (ii).

9. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 , wherein the tire component is a sidewall component.

10. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 , wherein the tire component is a tread component.

11. The pneumatic tire of claim 9 , wherein a content of the rubber reinforcing material (iii) is 1 to 130 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (i)+(ii) which consists of 5 to 90 parts by mass of the polybutadiene (i) and 95 to 10 parts by mass of the other rubber (ii).

12. The pneumatic tire of claim 1 , wherein the tire component is a clinch and the rubber reinforcing material (iii) comprises silica having a CTAB specific surface area of not less than 180 m 2 /g and a BET specific surface area of not less than 185 m 2 /g.

13. The pneumatic tire of claim 12 , wherein a content of the silica is 1 to 150 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (i)+(ii) which consists of 5 to 90 parts by mass of the polybutadiene (i) and 95 to 10 parts by mass of the other rubber (ii).

14. The pneumatic tire of claim 10 , wherein a content of the rubber reinforcing material (iii) is 1 to 130 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component (i)+(ii) which consists of 5 to 90 parts by mass of the polybutadiene (i) and 95 to 10 parts by mass of the other rubber (ii).

Assignees

• Sumitomo Rubber Ind

Inventors

• OSHIMO Masaki
• Haba Toshifumi
• Mabuchi Takahiro

Classifications

• C08F36/06

  Butadiene · CPC title

• C08F4/70

  Iron group metals, platinum group metals or compounds thereof · CPC title

• B60C1/0025

  Compositions of the sidewalls · CPC title

• C08K3/36

  Silica · CPC title

• C08L9/00

  Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of conjugated diene hydrocarbons · CPC title