Crosslinked rubber, member for tires, vibration-proofing member, member for belts, and rubber composition

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9683095-B2
Application number	US-201415023529-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 29, 2014
Priority date	Oct 31, 2013
Publication date	Jun 20, 2017
Grant date	Jun 20, 2017

Abstract

A cross-linked rubber exhibits high strength and excellent abrasion resistance as compared with a known cross-linked rubber. The cross-linked rubber is obtained by cross-linking a rubber composition that includes a hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer, an olefin-based rubber, and a cross-linking agent, the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer being a hydrogenated product of a polymer that includes a structural unit derived from butadiene, and including at least one of an amino group and a hydrocarbyloxysilyl group at one terminal or each terminal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A cross-linked rubber obtained by cross-linking a rubber composition that comprises a hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer, an olefin-based rubber, and a cross-linking agent,
wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer is a hydrogenated product of a polymer that comprises a structural unit derived from butadiene, and a hydrocarbyloxysilyl group of formula (1) at one terminal or each terminal, wherein the terminal of the polymer at which the hydrocarbyloxysilyl group is bonded is a butadiene block:

wherein A 1 is a monovalent functional group that includes a nitrogen atom, does not include active hydrogen, and is bonded to R 5 through the nitrogen atom,
R 3 and R 4 are each independently a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms,
R 5 is a linear or branched alkanediyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkylene group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or an arylene group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and
n is an integer from 0 to 2.

2. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 , wherein the structural unit derived from butadiene that is comprised in the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer has a hydrogenation rate of 70% or more.

3. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer comprises a random copolymer part that is formed of the structural unit derived from butadiene and a structural unit derived from an aromatic vinyl compound.

4. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 , wherein a content of a chain that comprises eight or more consecutive structural units derived from an aromatic vinyl compound in the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer is 10 mass % or less based on a total content of the structural units derived from the aromatic vinyl compound.

5. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 3 , wherein the aromatic vinyl compound is one or more compounds selected from styrene and α-methylstyrene.

6. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer further comprises a structural unit derived from a conjugated diene-based compound other than butadiene.

7. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 6 , wherein the conjugated diene-based compound other than butadiene is isoprene.

8. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer comprises a polyisoprene block.

9. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 8 , wherein a 1,4-bond/3,4-bond ratio in the polyisoprene block is 60/40 to 98/2.

10. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer is a polymer produced by polymerizing monomers that comprise 50 to 90 parts by mass of butadiene, 10 to 50 parts by mass of an aromatic vinyl compound, and 0 to 40 parts by mass of a conjugated diene-based compound other than butadiene.

11. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 , wherein the structural unit derived from butadiene that is comprised in the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer has a 1,2-vinyl content of 5 to 70%.

12. The cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 , wherein the rubber composition further comprises one or more additional components selected from silica and carbon black.

13. A tire member comprising the cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 .

14. A vibration-proofing member comprising the cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 .

15. A belt member comprising the cross-linked rubber according to claim 1 .

16. A rubber composition comprising a hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer and an olefin-based rubber,
wherein the hydrogenated conjugated diene-based polymer is a hydrogenated product of a polymer that comprises a structural unit derived from butadiene and a hydrocarbyloxysilyl group at one terminal or each terminal, wherein the terminal of the polymer at which the hydrocarbyloxysilyl group is bonded is a butadiene block:

wherein A 1 is a monovalent functional group that includes a nitrogen atom, does not include active hydrogen, and is bonded to R 5 through the nitrogen atom,
R 3 and R 4 are each independently a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms,
R 5 is a linear or branched alkanediyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, a cycloalkylene group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or an arylene group having 6 to 20 carbon atoms, and
n is an integer from 0 to 2.

Assignees

• Jsr Corp

Inventors

• Sawada Yukihiro
• Senga Hirofumi
• Abe Shigeru

Classifications

• C08K3/04

  Carbon · CPC title

• C08K3/36

  Silica · CPC title

• C08L23/0815

  with aliphatic 1-olefins containing one carbon-to-carbon double bond · CPC title

• B60C1/0025

  Compositions of the sidewalls · CPC title

• C08C19/22

  Incorporating nitrogen atoms into the molecule · CPC title