Rubber composition for tire tread and tire manufactured by using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9828494-B2
Application number	US-201514750907-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 25, 2015
Priority date	Jun 30, 2014
Publication date	Nov 28, 2017
Grant date	Nov 28, 2017

Abstract

Disclosed is a rubber composition for tire treads and a tire manufactured using the same. More particular, the rubber composition for tire treads includes 50 to 200 parts by weight of a wet masterbatch prepared by reacting a styrene-butadiene latex, a carbon black and a liquid styrene-butadiene copolymer at 50 to 95° C. for three to nine hours according to a batchwise method, 60 to 70 parts by weight of a raw rubber, and 50 to 200 parts by weight of a carbon black. Accordingly, the rubber composition for tire treads has enhanced grip and anti-wear performances under a condition of heavy load, high slip and high speed, and thus, may be usefully used in manufacturing a ultra-high performance tire.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A rubber composition for tire treads, the rubber composition comprising:
50 to 200 parts by weight of a wet masterbatch based on the total weight of the composition,
60 to 70 parts by weight of a raw rubber based on the total weight of the composition, and
50 to 200 parts by weight of a carbon black based on the total weight of the composition,
wherein the wet masterbatch is prepared by mixing a styrene-butadiene latex, a carbon black and a liquid styrene-butadiene copolymer at 50 to 95° C. for three to nine hours according to a batchwise method, and
wherein a terminal hydrogen of the liquid styrene-butadiene copolymer is substituted with any one selected from the group consisting of a C1 to C10 alkyl group, a C3 to C30 cycloalkyl group, a C2 to C30 heterocycloalkyl, a C3 to C30 aryl group and a C2 to C30 heteroaryl group.

2. The rubber composition according to claim 1 , wherein the wet masterbatch is prepared by mixing 60 to 150 parts by weight of the carbon black with respect to 100 parts by weight of the styrene butadiene latex and 60 to 200 parts by weight of the liquid styrene-butadiene copolymer with respect to 100 parts by weight of the styrene-butadiene latex.

3. The rubber composition according to claim 1 , wherein, in the liquid styrene-butadiene copolymer, an amount of styrene is 17 to 27 wt % based on the total weight of the copolymer, and an amount of vinyl in butadiene is 60 to 80 wt % based on the total weight of the copolymer.

4. The rubber composition according to claim 1 , wherein, in the styrene-butadiene latex, an amount of styrene is 40 to 60 wt % based on the total weight of the latex, and an amount of vinyl in butadiene is 15 to 45 wt % based on the total weight of the latex.

5. The rubber composition according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon black included in the wet masterbatch has an iodine absorption amount of 200 to 1000 mg/g and an N-dibutyl phthalate (DBP) oil absorption amount of 150 to 800 cc/100 g.

6. The rubber composition according to claim 1 , wherein the wet masterbatch is prepared by further adding 10 to 100 parts by weight of a processing oil with respect to 100 parts by weight of the styrene-butadiene latex,
wherein the processing oil comprises 30 to 40 wt % of an aromatic ingredient, 23 to 33 wt % of a naphthenic ingredient and 33 to 43 wt % of a paraffin based ingredient with respect to a total amount of the processing oil.

7. The rubber composition according to claim 6 , wherein, in the processing oil, a content of benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) as an ingredient among polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) is 1 ppm or less, and
a total content of one or more of eight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons comprising benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), benzo(e)pyren (BeP), benzo(a)anthracene (BaA), chrysen (CHR), benzo(b)fluoranthene (BbFA), benzo(j)fluoranthene (BjFA), benzo(k)fluoranthene (BkFA) and dibenzo(a,h)anthracene is 10 ppm or less.

8. The rubber composition according to claim 1 , wherein the raw rubber comprises a styrene-butadiene rubber in which a content of styrene is 30 to 50 wt % based on the total weight of the rubber, a content of vinyl in butadiene is 40 to 65 wt % based on the total weight of the rubber, a content of oil is 5 to 45 wt % based on the total weight of the rubber, and glass transition temperature is -19° C. to -29° C.

9. A tire manufactured using the rubber composition for tire tread according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Hankook Tire Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Byung Lip

Classifications

• C08K3/04

  Carbon · CPC title

• C08L9/00

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

• C08L2310/00

  Masterbatches · CPC title

• C08J3/205

  in the presence of a {continuous} liquid phase · CPC title

• C08L2207/324

  Liquid component is low molecular weight polymer · CPC title