Tire comprising a tread

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11241912-B2
Application number	US-201816499693-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 2, 2018
Priority date	Mar 21, 2017
Publication date	Feb 8, 2022
Grant date	Feb 8, 2022

Abstract

A tire having a tread comprising at least two radially superposed portions which comprise a radially external portion intended to come into contact with ground during rolling, the radially external portion being made of a first rubber composition, and a radially internal portion made of a second rubber composition; wherein the first rubber composition is based on at least an elastomer matrix; and a reinforcing filler comprising between 40 and 200 phr of a reinforcing inorganic filler; wherein the second rubber composition is based on at least: an elastomer matrix comprising 20 to 70 phr of a first diene elastomer bearing at least one SiOR function, R being a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon radical, 20 to 70 phr of a second diene elastomer which is polyisoprene, and comprising no third diene elastomer or at most 20 phr; a reinforcing filler comprising a reinforcing inorganic filler.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A tire having a tread comprising at least two radially superposed portions which comprise a radially external portion intended to come into contact with ground during rolling, the radially external portion being made of a first rubber composition, and a radially internal portion made of a second rubber composition which is different from the first rubber composition,
wherein the first rubber composition is based on at least:
an elastomer matrix; and
a reinforcing filler comprising between 40 and 200 phr of a reinforcing inorganic filler, and

wherein the second rubber composition is based on at least:
an elastomer matrix comprising 20 to 70 phr of a first diene elastomer bearing at least one SiOR function, R being a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbon radical, 20 to 70 phr of a second diene elastomer which is polyisoprene, and comprising no third diene elastomer or equal to or less than 20 phr of a third diene elastomer; and
a reinforcing filler comprising a reinforcing inorganic filler.

2. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the first diene elastomer is a styrene-butadiene copolymer.

3. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one SiOR function is located at the chain end of the first diene elastomer.

4. The tire according to claim 1 , where the at least one SiOR function is not located at the chain end of the first diene elastomer.

5. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the first diene elastomer further bears at least one amine function.

6. The tire according to claim 5 , wherein the at least one SiOR function bears the amine function.

7. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein R of the at least one SiOR function is a hydrogen atom.

8. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein R of the at least one SiOR function is a hydrocarbon radical.

9. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the first diene elastomer has a glass transition temperature of lower than −40° C.

10. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the elastomer matrix of the second rubber composition comprises 30 to 60 phr of the first diene elastomer.

11. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the elastomer matrix of the second rubber composition comprises 30 to 60 phr of the second diene elastomer.

12. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the second diene elastomer comprises more than 50% by weight of natural rubber per 100% by weight of the second diene elastomer.

13. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the elastomer matrix of the second rubber composition comprises 5 to 20 phr of the third diene elastomer.

14. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the elastomer matrix of the second rubber composition comprises the third diene elastomer is a polybutadiene.

15. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing filler of the second rubber composition comprises equal to or more than 10 phr of the reinforcing inorganic filler.

16. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing inorganic filler comprises more than 50% by weight of silica per 100% by weight of the reinforcing inorganic filler in each of the first and second rubber compositions.

17. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second rubber compositions are further based on a plasticizing agent.

18. The tire according to claim 17 , wherein the plasticizing agent for each of the first and second rubber compositions is independently selected from the group consisting of liquid plasticizers, hydrocarbon resins, and mixtures thereof.

19. The tire according to claim 1 , wherein the radially internal portion is adjacent to the radially external portion.

Assignees

• Michelin & Cie

Inventors

• Watanabe Makiko
• Fukasawa Hiroko

Classifications

• B60C1/0016 Primary

  Compositions of the tread · CPC title

• C08K3/36

  Silica · CPC title

• C08L9/06 Primary

  Copolymers with styrene · CPC title

• C08L7/00

  Compositions of natural rubber · CPC title

• C08L23/22

  Copolymers of isobutene; Butyl rubber; Homopolymers or copolymers of other iso-olefins · CPC title