Tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10793703-B2
Application number	US-201816214265-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 10, 2018
Priority date	Dec 13, 2017
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

The present invention provides a tire which has at least one member selected from the group consisting of a side reinforcing rubber layer and a bead filler made of a vulcanized rubber composition comprising a natural rubber as a rubber component and having a difference between a dynamic tensile storage modulus E′ at 180° C. (A) and a dynamic tensile storage modulus E′ at 25° C. (B) {E′(A)−E′(B)} of 2.0 MPa or more, the dynamic tensile storage moduli being measured under conditions of an initial tensile strain of 5%, a dynamic tensile strain of 1%, and a frequency of 52 Hz, and provides the tire excellent in achieving both the riding comfort in normal running and the durability in Run-flat running.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A tire having at least one member selected from the group consisting of a side reinforcing rubber layer and a bead filler made of a vulcanized rubber composition comprising a natural rubber and an amine-modified butadiene rubber having a vinyl bond content in a micro structure of 20 to 50% by mass as a rubber component and having a difference between a dynamic tensile storage modulus E′ at 180° C. (A) and a dynamic tensile storage modulus E′ at 25° C. (B) {E′(A)−E′(B)} of 2.0 MPa or more, the dynamic tensile storage moduli being measured under conditions of an initial tensile strain of 5%, a dynamic tensile strain of 1%, and a frequency of 52 Hz.

2. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the vulcanized rubber composition has a loss tangent tan δ at 25° C. of 0.080 or less, measured under conditions of an initial tensile strain of 5%, a dynamic tensile strain of 1%, and a frequency of 52 Hz.

3. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the rubber component of an unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition comprises 20% by mass or more of the amine-modified butadiene rubber.

4. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the vulcanized rubber composition comprises carbon black, and the content of the carbon black in the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition is 30 to 100 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

5. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition comprises 2.6 to 5.5 parts by mass of a thiuram based vulcanization accelerating agent based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

6. The tire according to claim 5 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition comprises a vulcanizing agent, and the mass ratio of the thiuram based vulcanization accelerating agent to the content of a sulfur in the vulcanizing agent (the content of the thiuram based vulcanization accelerating agent/the content of the sulfur in the vulcanizing agent) is 0.4 to 1.2.

7. The tire according to claim 5 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition further comprises a vulcanization accelerating agent A other than the thiuram based vulcanization accelerating agent and comprises 1.0 to 5.0 parts by mass of the vulcanization accelerating agent A based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

8. The tire according to claim 4 , wherein the carbon black has a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of 20 to 90 m 2 /g.

9. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition contains no softener or contains 4.0 parts by mass or less of the softener based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

10. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition contains no thermosetting resin or contains 1.0 part by mass or less of the thermosetting resin based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

11. The tire according to claim 2 , wherein the rubber component of an unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition comprises 20% by mass or more of the amine-modified butadiene rubber.

12. The tire according to claim 2 , wherein the vulcanized rubber composition comprises carbon black, and the content of the carbon black in the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition is 30 to 100 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

13. The tire according to claim 2 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition comprises 2.6 to 5.5 parts by mass of a thiuram based vulcanization accelerating agent based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

14. The tire according to claim 3 , wherein the vulcanized rubber composition comprises carbon black, and the content of the carbon black in the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition is 30 to 100 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

15. The tire according to claim 3 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition comprises 2.6 to 5.5 parts by mass of a thiuram based vulcanization accelerating agent based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

16. The tire according to claim 4 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition comprises 2.6 to 5.5 parts by mass of a thiuram based vulcanization accelerating agent based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

17. The tire according to claim 6 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition further comprises a vulcanization accelerating agent A other than the thiuram based vulcanization accelerating agent and comprises 1.0 to 5.0 parts by mass of the vulcanization accelerating agent A based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

18. The tire according to claim 2 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition contains no softener or contains 4.0 parts by mass or less of the softener based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

19. The tire according to claim 2 , wherein the unvulcanized rubber composition before vulcanization of the vulcanized rubber composition contains no thermosetting resin or contains 1.0 part by mass or less of the thermosetting resin based on 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.

Assignees

• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• AMIYA Motoki
• Miyamoto Chiyo

Classifications

• C08F136/06

  Butadiene · CPC title

• C08C19/44

  of polymers containing metal atoms exclusively at one or both ends of the skeleton · CPC title

• C08C19/25 Primary

  Incorporating silicon atoms into the molecule · CPC title

• C08L15/00

  Compositions of rubber derivatives (C08L11/00, C08L13/00 take precedence) · CPC title

• C08C19/22

  Incorporating nitrogen atoms into the molecule · CPC title