Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Tsuneharu Akiyama

Suminobu Kurahashi

Kinji Masuda

Sakae Inoue

Motokazu Kikuchi

Toshiyuki Osaki

Sakae Inouye

Norio Wada

A vulcanizable rubber composition suitable for the production of rubber materials having improved scorching stability and heat aging resistance can be obtained by compounding raw material rubber with a sulfenamide compound having the following general formula ##EQU1## wherein X represents a residue selected from the group consisting of residues of hydrocarbon, alkyl ether and secondary alcohol having 2-20 carbon atoms, and residues represented by the general formulae ##EQU2## (wherein R' represents a residue of hydrocarbon or alkyl ether having 0-20 carbon atoms, and R' represents a hydrocarbon residue having 1-10 carbon atoms), and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are same or different and are selected from hydrocarbon residues having 2-10 carbon atoms, and hydrogen atom, or R.sub.1 is ringed with R.sub.2 and/or R.sub.3 is ringed with R.sub.4, through the nitrogen atom of the general formula (1), to form heterocyclic rings of 5-7 members.

Sulfenamides in vulcanizable rubber composition

This invention relates to an improvement of the adhesion of a metallic material such as copper, copper alloys and other metals coated therewith with a vulcanizable rubber composition. It is realized by previously adding orthoboric acid or a metal borate to the rubber composition in order to proceed with metal-rubber bonding reaction and vulcanization reaction in good balance, and vulcanizing an assembly of the metallic material and the boric compound containing rubber composition closely contacted therewith.

Method for improving adhesion of metallic material with vulcanizable

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Akishima, Japan

Tsuneharu Akiyama