The Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.

Sony Corporation

Satoshi Mihara

Kazushi Kimura

Hirokazu Kageyama

Masaki Sato

Makoto Ashiura

Kazuya Uenishi

Yu Shinke

Keisuke Maejima

Katsunori Shimizu

Yoshihiro Goto

Yayoi Akahori

Kenichi Iida

Izuru Tanaka

Naoya Amino

Naoki Kushida

Fumihiko Kato

Yutaro Yamamoto

Ayaki Kazariya

Motoji Fujita

Keisuke Chino

Yoshihiro Kameda

Wonmun Choi

Takashi Matsuda

Hidekazu Onoi

Ayumi Naka

Takashi Kakubo

Shin Tsukishima

Rabin N Datta

Auki G Talma

Genichiro Shimada

Jacques W Noordermeer

The present technology provide a rubber composition including: 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber, from 30 to 100 parts by mass of carbon black and/or a white filler, from 1 to 20 parts by mass of silicone-based microparticles that have an average particle size from 5 to 500 μm and that are three-dimensionally crosslinked, from 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a nonionic surfactant, and from 1 to 20 parts by mass of thermally expanding microcapsules.

Rubber composition for tire and studless tire

A rubber composition for a tire according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber and from 1 to 30 parts by mass of a thermally expandable microcapsule composite body, and the thermally expandable microcapsule composite body contains one or more thermally expandable microcapsules and an acrylonitrile butadiene copolymer and/or a crosslinked body thereof covering the one or more thermally expandable microcapsules.

A rubber composition for a tire contains a diene rubber, silica, and a specific modified butadiene polymer, wherein the diene rubber contains an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene rubber A and at least one rubber component B selected from an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene rubber b1 other than the rubber A and a butadiene rubber b2 having a weight average molecular weight of &#x2265;15000. A content of the aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene rubber A is from 30 to 90% by mass, and a content of the rubber component B is from 10 to 70% by mass, an average TG of the diene rubber is lower than &#x2212;20&#xb0; C., a content of the silica is from 80 to 200 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber, and a content of the modified butadiene polymer is from 1.0 to 25.0% by mass with respect to content of the silica.

Rubber composition for tire, and pneumatic tire

The present technology provides a tire rubber composition formed by blending a microparticle composite, which is formed from a solid component of a mixture containing an emulsion of an organic microparticle and a rubber latex, in a sulfur vulcanizable rubber; the emulsion of the organic microparticle being an emulsion containing a microparticle obtained by polymerizing and/or crosslinking at least one selected from the group consisting of polymerizable monomers, and oligomers, prepolymers, and polymers having a reactive functional group and having a molecular weight from 500 to 50000 simultaneously or stepwise in water; and an average particle size of the microparticle being from 0.001 to 100 &#x3bc;m.

Tire rubber composition

The present invention provides a rubber composition for a tire, the rubber composition containing: a diene rubber; silica; and a heterocyclic compound (where, the heterocyclic compound does not have a silicon atom) having a hydrocarbon group having from 3 to 30 carbons and at least one type of heterocycle selected from the group consisting of a piperazine ring, a morpholine ring, and a thiomorpholine ring; an average glass transition temperature of the diene rubber being &#x2212;50&#xb0; C. or higher; a content of the silica being from 80 to 200 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber; and a content of the heterocyclic compound being from 0.5 to 20% by mass with respect to the content of the silica. Such rubber composition has excellent processability, exhibits excellent wet grip performance and has low rolling resistance when the rubber composition is formed into a tire.

Provided is a rubber composition including: (i) a sulfur vulcanizable elastomer, (ii) carbon black and/or a white filler, and (iii) a microparticle having a three-dimensionally crosslinked structure; the microparticle being a microparticle obtained by three-dimensionally crosslinking a polymer formed from an oligomer or prepolymer that has a sulfide bond formed from two or more sulfur atoms in a main chain and/or that has a thiol group.

Rubber composition for tires

A rubber composition for a tire contains 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber (A) and from 1 to 60 parts by mass of an organic microparticle (B); an average particle size of the organic microparticle (B) being from 0.001 to 100 &#x3bc;m, the organic microparticle (B) having a complex structure composed of a compatible component that is compatible with the diene rubber (A) and an incompatible component that is not compatible with the diene rubber (A), the complex structure having an inner part in which an amount of the incompatible component is greater than an amount of compatible component, and an outer part which covers at least a part of the inner part and in which the amount of the compatible component is greater than an amount of the incompatible component. A pneumatic tire including such rubber composition has a desirable elongation, rigidity, durability, and wear resistance.

The present invention is to provide an aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer which exhibits excellent mechanical properties and wear resistance when being formed into a tire, a method for producing the aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer, and a rubber composition containing the aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer. The aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer of an embodiment of the present invention is an aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer which is a copolymer of an aromatic vinyl and a diene, wherein the content of a repeating unit derived from an aromatic vinyl is 18 mass % or greater, among repeating units derived from a diene, a proportion of a vinyl structure is 8 mol % or less, a proportion of a 1,4-trans structure is 75 mol % or less, and a proportion of a 1,4-cis structure is from 17 to 90 mol %, and a glass transition temperature is &#x2212;60&#xb0; C. or lower.

Aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer, method for producing aromatic vinyl-diene copolymer, and rubber composition

The present invention is to provide a diene polymer that exhibits excellent low rolling resistance when used in a tire, a method for producing the diene polymer, and a rubber composition containing the diene polymer. The diene polymer of an embodiment of the present invention is produced by polymerizing a monomer containing at least a diene monomer by using an initiator prepared from an organolithium compound, an alkyl aluminum, and a metal alcoholate, and then terminating the polymerization by using an electrophile selected from the group consisting of titanium halides, tin halides, cyclic silazanes, alkoxysilanes, epoxides, amines, ketones, and compounds represented by Formula (N) below. 

Diene polymer, method for producing diene polymer, and rubber composition

Provided is a rubber composition containing from 1 to 50 parts by mass of an organic microparticle having an average particle size of 0.001 to 100 &#x3bc;m and having a crosslinked structure per 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber, the organic microparticle being a crosslinked microparticle of a copolymer formed from at least two types of segments having repeating units that are different each other, the at least two types of segments being formed from an oligomer or prepolymer having a functional group and having a molecular weight of 500 to 20000, and the functional group forming a crosslinked structure between the at least two types of segments.

The present invention provides: a rubber composition for tires which has excellent processability and has excellent low heat build-up when formed into a tire; and a pneumatic tire using the same. The rubber composition for tires of the present invention is a rubber composition for tires, the rubber composition containing a diene rubber (A) and a microparticle (B), a vinyl group content of the diene rubber (A) being from 5 to 35 mass %, the microparticle (B) being a mercapto group-containing organic microparticle in which a crosslinkable oligomer or polymer (b1) is crosslinked, an average particle size of the microparticle (B) being from 1 to 200 &#x3bc;m, and a content of the microparticle (B) being from 1 to 55 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber (A).

Rubber composition for tire and pneumatic tire

A studded tire includes stud pins embedded in a road contact surface of a tread portion; the rubber composition forming the tread portion containing at least one of natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, and butadiene rubber, from 5 to 50 parts by weight of carbon black and from 5 to 70 parts by weight of silica per 100 parts by weight of the diene rubber; a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of the carbon black being from 50 to 120 m/g; a CTAB specific surface area of the silica being from 80 to 190 m/g; a rubber hardness of the rubber composition being not greater than 60; and a product of a stress at the time of 400% elongation and a bottom surface area of a flange portion on a bottom side of the stud pins being not less than 400 MPa&#xb7;mmand not greater than 850 MPa&#xb7;mm.

Stud tire

Provided is a rubber composition for a tire tread, which includes 1 or greater parts by mass and less than 20 parts by mass of a millable silicone rubber compound per 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber, wherein the millable silicone rubber compound has a storage modulus of 0.3 to 10 kPa at a 450% shear strain at 110&#xb0; C. and a glass transition temperature and a plasticity with a relationship: 14000&#x3c;(273+Tg)&#xd7;Pn&#x3c;82000, where Tg is the glass transition temperature (&#xb0; C.) and the Pn is the plasticity at 23&#xb0; C.

Tire tread rubber composition

A rubber composition contains a diene rubber component containing at least 20 mass % of a modified conjugated diene rubber, a silica, and a silane coupling agent; the modified conjugated diene rubber having at least one modified part and at least one conjugated diene rubber part; the conjugated diene rubber part having a conjugated diene copolymer block and an isoprene block containing from 70 mass % to 100 mass % of isoprene units in each conjugated diene rubber part; the modified part bonding to an end of the conjugated diene rubber part and having a functional group which interacts with the silica; a content of the silica being from 60 to 200 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber component; the silane coupling agent being a polysiloxane represented by formula (1), (A)(B)(C)(D)(R)SiO, and having a content from 1.0 to 20 mass % of the content of the silica.

Rubber composition for tire tread, and pneumatic tire

The present invention provides a rubber composition a tire, by which both low rolling resistance and wet grip performance can be achieved at high levels. This rubber composition for a tire is obtained by blending from 66 to 180 parts by weight of a silica having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of from 150 to 400 m/g into 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber; a size Rof aggregates of the silica forming a hierarchical structure being from 14 to 23 nm when the rubber composition is measured by ultra-small-angle X-ray scattering and an obtained scattering profile is applied to a Unified-Guinier function.

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Satoshi Mihara