The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Keisuke Chino

Masahiro Ikawa

Tetsuji Kawazura

Makoto Ashiura

Hidekazu Onoi

Fumito Yatsuyanagi

Junichiro Natori

Jun Matsuda

Satoshi Mihara

Hiroyuki Kaido

Naoshi Miyashita

Manabu Kato

Hiroyuki Okuhira

Takashi Matsuda

Yoshihiro Goto

Masayoshi Ito

Duangruthai Srinun

Tetuji Kawazura

Jetsuda Tongsurm

The present technology provides a rubber composition comprising natural rubber, which achieves the stabilization of viscosity over a long period of time and has a dramatically reduced odor by compounding an aminoguanidine into natural rubber.

Rubber composition containing natural rubber and process for stabilizing viscosity and suppressing odors in natural rubber

A tire-wheel assembly and disassembly method is disclosed wherein relative shifting of a tire and a wheel when braking and/or cornering can be suppressed without negatively affecting tire replacement workability. Specifically, a tire-wheel assembly has a wheel constructed from an electrically conductive material and a tire assembled on an outer peripheral side of the wheel, wherein an electrically conductive layer is formed on at least a part of a wheel contact surface of the tire, and an electrically debonding adhesive comprising an ionic liquid is interposed between the electrically conductive layer of the tire and the wheel. When disassembling this tire-wheel assembly, the tire is removed from the wheel after voltage is applied between the wheel and the electrically conductive layer of the tire and electricity is passed through the electrically debonding adhesive.

Tire-wheel assembly and disassembly method for the same

A method for manufacturing natural rubber according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: adding to a natural rubber latex at least one type of a predetermined sulfonic acid selected from the group consisting of a monoalkyl sulfonic acid, a polyoxyethylene alkyl ether sulfonic acid, and an alkylbenzene sulfonic acid; and, thereafter, removing moisture from the mixture of the natural rubber latex and the sulfonic acid.

Method for manufacturing natural rubber

A thermoplastic elastomer having a side chain having a moiety crosslinkable by hydrogen bond containing a carbonyl-containing group and a nitrogen-containing heterocycle, and another side chain having a covalently crosslinkable moiety, the thermoplastic elastomer being able to be crosslinked at the covalently crosslinkable moiety by at least one bond selected from the group consisting of amide, ester, lactone, urethane, ether, thiourethane, and thioether. The thermoplastic elastomer exhibits excellent mechanical strength without detracting from its excellent recycleability.

Thermoplastic elastomer

A thermoplastic elastomer composition includes: a thermoplastic elastomer having a carbonyl-containing group and a nitrogen-containing heterocycle in a side chain thereof; and an amino group-containing compound. The thermoplastic elastomer composition retains excellent recycle property, and also has excellent mechanical characteristics and compression set (shape retention). Thus, it is of extremely superior industrial applicability and environmental protection effect.

Thermoplastic elastomer composition

A process for producing a modified polymer having, in the molecule thereof, an organic group(s) introduced thereinto and derived from a compound(s) having a free radical comprising reacting a polymer such as an elastomer with a compound having the free radical stable at an ordinary temperature in the presence of oxygen, after or while a carbon radical(s) is generated in the polymer, whereby the modified polymer having an improved bondability and processability is formed.

Process for producing modified polymer

A thermoplastic polymer having a carbonyl-containing group and a nitrogen-containing 5-membered heterocycle-containing group in side chains, and a composition thereof. The thermoplastic polymer and composition thereof have excellent recycle property in that physical properties do not deteriorate even though formation of crosslinking and dissociation of crosslinking are repeatedly conducted with altering temperature. The thermoplastic polymer and composition thereof are that its crosslinked structure is considerably stable at room temperature, and therefore have considerably high tensile strength. In particular, in the case of bonding to a main chain at 3-position or 4-position of a nitrogen-containing 5-membered heterocycle, intermolecular hydrogen bond is caused, so that a cured product has high mechanical properties.

Thermoplastic polymer and thermoplastic elastomer composition

A thermo-reversible, crosslinkable elastomer, a composition containing the same, a rubber-bonded body and a rubber structure containing the rubber-bonded body are disclosed. The thermo-reversible, crosslinkable elastomer has an elastomer main-chain and a crosslinkable portion having at least one group selected from the group consisting of acid anhydride group and hydroxyl group. The thermo-reversible, crosslinkable elastomer can form stable crosslinked structure at room temperature, thereby having rubber plasticity, show sufficient melt flowability at molding temperature of general thermoplastic resin, and repeatedly reproduce crosslinking formation and crosslinking dissociation.

Methods of making and recycling rubber bodies bonded with a thermo-reversible, crosslinkable elastomer

A radical-modified polymer having a free radical compound stable in the presence of oxygen at an ordinary temperature at the end of the molecule thereof or in the molecular chain thereof and a polymer composition containing the same.

Radical-modified polymer and polymer composition containing the same

A viscoelasticity improving agent for rubber obtained by reacting an alkyllithium compound with a free radical compound having an isocyanate group in the molecule thereof and existing stably at room temperature in the presence of oxygen and a rubber composition.

Viscoelasticity improving agent for rubber and rubber composition containing the same

Adhesive of thiirane and oxirane-containing compound and oxirane-containing compound

An elastomer composition including an elastomer having a functional group, and a compound having a functional group, in which corresponding functional groups form a cross-link by at least one of an ionic bond, a hydrogen bond, and Diels-Alder reaction with temperatures, i.e., by heating, while the cross-link is cleaved at around room temperature, forming and cleaving of the cross-link being reversible.

Elastomer composition

A silica-polymer composite, featuring a low viscosity and excellent processability when being kneaded with a rubber and superior in dispersibility and tensile strength, comprising a polymer having a polar group containing a hetero atom and a benzene ring or a polymer having a carboxylic acid reacted with silica in a solution.

Silica-polymer composite, method of production thereof, and rubber composition using the same

A rubber composition containing 50 to 90 parts by weight of a diene rubber and 50 to 10 parts by weight of a gelled rubber having a toluene swelling index of 16 to 150, based upon the total amount of 100 parts by weight of the diene rubber and the gelled rubber.

Rubber composition and production process thereof

A modified polybutene(polyisobutylene) containing isobutylene repeating units and having, in the main chain, at the ends, and/or at the side chains of the polymer chain thereof, free radicals stable at a room temperature and in the presence of oxygen, or having a half-ester structure, amide structure, onium salt structure, or imide structure or acid anhydride residual group, as well as a rubber composition containing the same.

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Hiratsuka, Japan

Keisuke Chino