The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Manuela Pompei

Marc Weydert

Georges Marcel Victor Thielen

Nihat Ali Isitman

Jérôme Joel Daniel Delville

Eric Engeldinger

Pascal Patrick Steiner

Joseph John Kulig

Claude Charles Jacoby

Luisa Fernanda Munoz Mejia

Robert Alan Woloszynek

Frida Nzulu

Hannah Long

Christian Jean-Marie Kaes

Carlo Kanz

Jean Nicolas Bergh

Malik Djelloul-Mazouz

William Alain Talbot

Bodo Ahrens

Jean-Noel Marsat

Philippe Nicolas Joseph Renard

Marine Sophie Francoise Wassen

Ghislain Adolphe Thise

Philippe Schmit

Karmena Izabela Anyfantaki

Jennifer Elizabeth Labbe

Jean-Paul Piret

Gilles Hartenstein

Georges Clement

Jennifer Labbe

Hannah Marie Prince Long

Jerome Delville

The present invention is directed to a rubber composition for a truck tire, the rubber composition comprising 70 phr to 95 phr of polyisoprene, and 5 phr to 30 phr of a solution polymerized styrene butadiene rubber having a glass transition temperature of less than −40° C. which is functionalized for the coupling to silica. Furthermore, the rubber composition comprises 40 phr to 80 phr of a filler comprising predominantly silica. Moreover, the present invention is directed to a truck tire comprising the rubber composition and to a truck comprising such a tire.

Rubber composition and truck tire

This invention is based upon the unexpected finding that a hydrocarbon traction resin can be dispersed into the oil used in making an oil extended emulsion and solution rubbers to attain improved performance characteristics. For instance, this technique allows for the hydrocarbon traction resin to be incorporated into the rubber at a higher level than would ordinarily be possible using conventional mixing techniques. In tire tread compounds this provides improved wet traction characteristics without compromising cured stiffness (dry traction) and ultimate properties (chip/chunk resistance). This technique can be used to incorporate a resin into virtually any synthetic rubber that can benefit from being oil extended. It is of particular value in making resin modified solution styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR), emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (ESBR), high cis-1.4-polybutadiene rubber, and synthetic polyisoprene rubber which are formulated for use in tire tread compounds.

Resin modified oil extended rubber

The present invention is directed to a sulfur vulcanizable rubber formulation comprising 10 phr to 100 phr of at least one partially saturated elastomer comprising repeat units, wherein at most 10% of all repeat units of the elastomer comprise a double bond; 0 phr to 90 phr of at least one diene based elastomer; 40 phr to 200 phr of at least one filler; and 5 phr to 70 phr of at least one hydrogenated plasticizer. This sulfur vulcanizable rubber formulation has been found to be useful in manufacturing tires.

Rubber composition and a tire

The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire having a tread comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr),

Pneumatic tire

The present invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising a tread, the tread comprising a rubber composition comprising from 30 to 80 phr of a styrene-butadiene rubber having a Tg ranging from &#x2212;70 C to &#x2212;40 C, from 10 to 50 phr of a high vinyl polybutadiene having a Tg ranging from &#x2212;40 C to &#x2212;5 C and has an isomeric vinyl 1,2 content in a range of from 50 to 90 percent by weight, and from 10 to 30 phr of a natural rubber or synthetic polyisoprene, silica, a blocked mercaptosilane, a traction resin, and liquid plasticizer selected from the group consisting of a low molecular weight polybutadiene functionalized with a hydroxyl functional group and sunflower oil.

The present invention is directed to a cement composition for rubber and tire fabrication, comprising: 100 phr of an elastomer, and from 500 to 4000 phr of an organic solvent having a vapor pressure of less than 0.01 kPa at 20&#xb0; C.

Cement for rubber and tire fabrication

The invention relates to a rubber tire composed of carbon black reinforced rubber carcass and having a rubber tread which is composed of a unitary, co-extrusion of tread cap, base and miniwings and, wherein a portion of the miniwings extend as a thin layer over a portion of the tread cap's outer surface to create a path of reduced electrical resistivity.

Tire having silica reinforced rubber tread with carbon black reinforced

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Manuela Pompei