Sumitomo Rubber Industries Limited

Isamu Tsumori

Tetsuya Kunisawa

Naoya Ichikawa

Kenichi Uesaka

Tatsuhiro Tanaka

Masato Komatsuki

Akira Minakoshi

Naoya Omura

Naohiko Kikuchi

Kiyoshige Muraoka

Hiroyuki Kishimoto

Kazuyuki Nishioka

Yoichi Mizuno

Takafumi Taguchi

Kenya Watanabe

Tsuyoshi Tsuchida

Norio Taniguchi

Shuichi Sakamoto

Noboru Wakabayashi

Yoshikazu Tanaka

Toru Iizuka

Takuzo Iwata

Masato Kawase

Marina Kotani

Noboru Okabe

Youichi Mizuno

Reika Otake

The present invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, and abrasion resistance in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition that contains a rubber component, silica, and a liquid resin having a softening point of &#x2212;20 to 20&#xb0; C., wherein the rubber component contains, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, not less than 5% by mass of a conjugated diene polymer containing a constituent unit based on a conjugated diene and a constituent unit represented by formula (I) below, at least one terminal of the polymer being modified with a specific compound; and an amount of the silica is 5 to 150 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. 

Rubber composition and pneumatic tire

The present invention provides a rubber composition that can enhance the fuel economy, wet-grip performance, and abrasion resistance in a balanced manner, and a pneumatic tire using this rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition that contains a rubber component, silica, and a silane coupling agent, wherein the rubber component contains, based on 100% by mass of the rubber component, not less than 5% by mass of a conjugated diene polymer containing a constituent unit based on a conjugated diene and a constituent unit represented by formula (I) below, at least one terminal of the polymer being modified with a specific compound; an amount of the silica is 5 to 150 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; and the silane coupling agent contains a mercapto group. 

The present invention provides a rubber composition for a clinch apex which improves in fuel economy, flex crack growth resistance, and processability in a balanced manner, and also provides a pneumatic tire produced using the rubber composition. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a clinch apex, including: a modified natural rubber having a phosphorus content of 200 ppm or less; and at least one of carbon black and a white filler.

Rubber composition for clinch apex and pneumatic tire

A rubber composition for a tire, and a pneumatic tire are provided in which the fuel economy, abrasion resistance, and deterioration resistance can be improved in a good balance. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a tire, containing a rubber component that contains: a modified natural rubber having a phosphorus content of not more than 200 ppm; and butadiene rubber, wherein 60 to 95% by mass of the modified natural rubber and 5 to 40% by mass of the butadiene rubber are contained based on 100% by mass of the rubber component.

Rubber composition for tire, and pneumatic tire

A rubber composition used for a tire, in which friction on ice is improved, which includes 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of a filler having at least two protuberances and a non-metal fiber based on 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber.

Process for preparing studless tire with tread having zinc oxide whiskers, glass fibers and porous natural glass

The present invention provides a studless tire excellent in performance on ice and snow in which digging friction is improved without losing adhesion friction. The studless tire has a tread comprising specific short fiber or plate-like material dispersed in diene rubber so as to be oriented in the tread thickness direction, wherein when measured at 25&#xb0; C. the tread has a complex elastic modulus E1 in the tread thickness direction, and the sheet has a complex elastic modulus E&#x3b1; in the extrusion direction and a complex elastic modulus E&#x3b2; in a 90&#xb0; direction from the extrusion direction, when the rubber composition is made into 2 mm sheets with a roller and these moduli fulfill the following equation,60&#x2266;(1&#x2212;&#x3b2;)/()&#xd7;100&#x2266;100and the tread has a specific tread rubber hardness. The tire is obtained using a tread prepared by extruding a rubber composition containing diene rubber and specific short fiber or plate-type material in a tube shape, thereby orienting the short fiber in the circumferential direction of the tube shaped rubber, then cutting the obtained rubber sheet parallel to the extrusion direction, rotating each piece 90&#xb0; and laminating.

Process for preparing rubber sheet and tread and studless tire using same

A vehicle tire comprises a tread rubber forming a ground contacting face of the tire; in a range from the ground contacting face to a certain depth, the tread rubber comprising circumferentially extending wide parts made of a carbon-black-reinforced rubber composition and circumferentially extending narrow parts made of a silica-reinforced rubber composition, which wide parts and narrow parts alternate in the tire axial direction; the axial width of each narrow part being in the range of from 0.5 to 1.5 mm; and the number of the narrow parts counted across a ground contacting width of the ground contacting face being in a range of from 3 to 11.

Vehicle tire including wide carbon black reinforced rubber parts and narrow silica reinforced rubber parts

A tire of which tread rubber comprises a conducive rubber at least partially, the conducive rubber extending from the radially inner surface of the tread rubber to the ground contacting face, and the conducive rubber compounded from 100 parts by weight of diene rubber and 2 to 30 parts by weight of conductive short fibers, the conductive short fibers formed by coating reinforcing short fibers with a conductive substance, and the conductive rubber has a volume resistance of less than 1&times;10,ohm cm.

Vehicle tire including conductive rubber

A rubber composition which is superior in ozone resistance and is hard to be discolored brown and white which comprises 0.5 to 2.5 parts by weight of a wax containing a component with 45 or more carbon atoms and having an average number of carbon atoms of 28 to 38 and 3.0 to 7.0 parts by weight of antioxidant containing 30 to 100% by weight of N-(1-methylheptyl)-N&prime;-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine per 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber component.

Rubber composition for tire sidewall

A rubber composition for treads which contains silica and has a low electric resistance and further well-balanced characteristics such as a low rolling resistance, abrasion resistance and good wet performance can be obtained. The rubber composition comprises 40 to 90 parts by weight of silica and 5 to 40 parts by weight of diester of adipic acid based on 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber.

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Isamu Tsumori