Laminate, tire, and method for producing tire

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9815330-B2
Application number	US-201214123127-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 30, 2012
Priority date	May 31, 2011
Publication date	Nov 14, 2017
Grant date	Nov 14, 2017

Abstract

The laminate according to the present invention includes a thermoplastic resin film-containing layer and a rubber layer, in which the rubber layer contains a modified diene polymer, and the rubber layer has a dynamic storage modulus E′ at −20° C. of 1.0×10 5 to 1.0×10 8 Pa. This laminate can improve the resistance to the fractures and the cracks of the inner liner.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A laminate comprising: a thermoplastic resin film-containing layer and a rubber layer, wherein the rubber layer contains a modified diene polymer, and wherein
the rubber layer contains two or more kinds of modified diene polymers with different modification rates, the modified diene polymers is one kind or two or more kinds selected from an epoxidized natural rubber and an epoxidized polybutadiene rubber, the different modification rates contain at least two kinds of 5 to 30% by mole and 40 to 90% by mole, and the thermoplastic resin film-containing layer has a laminated structure of a thermoplastic resin film and a thermoplastic elastomer layer; and the rubber layer is disposed between a carcass in tire and the thermoplastic resin film-containing layer,
the thermoplastic resin film comprises an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer;
the elastomer layer comprises an a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer; and
the thermoplastic resin film-containing layer is a multi-layer structure formed of 21 or more layers.

2. The laminate according to claim 1 , wherein the rubber layer has a dynamic storage modulus E′ at −20° C. of 1.0×10 5 to 1.0×10 8 Pa.

3. The laminate according to claim 1 , wherein the rubber layer has a thickness of 0.1 to 30 mm.

4. The laminate according to claim 1 , wherein the modified diene polymer has a glass transition temperature of 0° C. or less.

5. A tire comprising a laminate according to claim 1 as an inner liner.

6. The tire according to claim 5 comprising: a carcass, an inner liner having a thermoplastic resin film, a rubber layer disposed between the carcass and the inner liner, an adhesive layer bonding the inner liner to the rubber layer, wherein the rubber layer has a dynamic storage modulus E′ at −20° C. of 1.0×10 5 to 1.0×10 7 Pa and a thickness of 0.1 to 1 mm.

7. The tire according to claim 6 comprising:
a pair of bead parts abutting a rim;
a pair of side wall parts stretched to the respective bead parts, the side wall parts facing each other;
a tread part holding the road;
a tire shoulder part having a contact with the side wall part and stretching from the tread end on the outside in the width direction of the tread part to the inside in the tire radial direction of the tread part;
a carcass formed in horseshoe shape between the pair of bead parts and disposed on the other side different from the road side of the tread part;
a belt layer disposed between the carcass and the tread part;
an inner liner having a thermoplastic resin film, the inner liner being disposed on the other side different from the road side of the carcass; and a rubber layer disposed between the carcass and the inner liner, wherein
the rubber layer is disposed in a region excluding the central region in the tread width direction of the tread part but including regions each between a first part as a part of the carcass corresponding to a belt end located on an outermost side in the tread width direction of the belt layer and a second part where the interval between parts of the carcass in the respective side wall parts facing each other is maximized.

8. The tire according to claim 7 , wherein the rubber layer covers 70% or less of the area of the inner liner from the sectional view in the tire radial direction and the tread width direction.

9. The tire according to claim 8 , wherein the rubber layer covers 50% or less of the area of the inner liner from the sectional view in the tire radial direction and the tread width direction.

10. The tire according to claim 6 , wherein the dynamic storage modulus at −20° C. of the thermoplastic resin film forming the inner liner is defined as E 1 ′, the dynamic storage modulus at −20° C. of the rubber layer is defined as E 2 ′, and the dynamic storage modulus at −20° C. of the adhesive layer is defined as E 4 ′, the moduluses have the following relationship:
E 1 ′>E 4 ′>E 2 ′, and

the dynamic storage modulus E 1 ′ is 1×10 8 to 1×10 9 Pa.

11. The tire according to claim 10 , wherein the dynamic storage modulus E 1 ′ is 2×10 8 to 8×10 8 Pa.

12. The tire according to claim 11 , wherein the dynamic storage modulus E 1 ′ is 4×10 8 to 6×10 8 Pa.

13. The tire according to claim 5 , wherein the rubber layer contains a diene rubber, and the diene rubber is an unmodified diene rubber.

14. The tire according to claim 5 , wherein the rubber layer contains a softener in a content of 5 to 50 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of a rubber component.

15. A method of producing a pneumatic tire, comprising: wrapping the laminate according to claim 1 around a tire molding drum so that the rubber layer is disposed on the outside; further wrapping a member for a tire around the laminate; removing the molding drum to obtain a green tire; and vulcanizing the green tire by heating to obtain a pneumatic tire.

Assignees

• Ogasawara Takuya
• Chiashi Hideyuki
• Kitano Hideki
• Bridgestone Corp

Inventors

• Ogasawara Takuya
• Chiashi Hideyuki
• Kitano Hideki

Classifications

• B32B27/38

  comprising epoxy resins · CPC title

• B32B25/16

  comprising polydienes {homopolymers} or poly-halodienes {homopolymers (B32B25/12 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• Y10T428/31511

  Of epoxy ether · CPC title

• B60C2005/147

  characterised by the joint or splice · CPC title

• B60C1/0008 Primary

  Compositions of the inner liner · CPC title