摘要:
A tire tread formed at least in part from a rubber composition that is based upon a cross- linkable rubber composition that may include between 50 phr and 90 phr of a first highly unsaturated elastomer being middle chain functionalized with an aminoalkoxysilane group and having a Tg of between -108 °C and -45 °C and between 10 phr and 50 phr of a second highly unsaturated elastomer being end-chain functionalized with a silanol group and having a Tg of between -108 °C and -10 °C. The rubber composition may further include between 50 phr and 150 phr of a silica filler and a plasticizing system comprising between 5 phr and 120 phr of a plasticizing resin having a Tg of at least 25 °C and between 0 phr and 60 phr of a plasticizing liquid.
摘要:
Tire treads, having one or more repeating pitches, each repeating pitch comprising individual pitches having tread blocks with sipes formed therein and each pitch having a pitch length of between 15 mm and 35 mm. Such treads may also have a weighted, average sipe density D w of between 10 mm -1 and 37 mm -1 , which is determined through the disclosed Eq. 2 below. The tread blocks are also formed from a rubber composition based upon a diene elastomer, a plasticizing system and a cross-linking system, wherein the rubber composition has a glass transition temperature of between -40° C and -15° C and a shear modulus G* measured at 60 ° C of between 0,5 MPa and 1,1 MPa.
摘要:
Treads and tires having such treads having improved characteristics breaking the compromise between Wear and wet braking, such treads manufactured from a rubber composition that may include greater than 90 phr of an elastomer component selected from styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR), a polybutadiene or combinations thereof having, a glass transition temperature of between -100°C and less than -50°C and a plasticizing system. The plasticizing system may include, for example, between 5 phr and 120 phr of a plasticizing resin having a Tg of -at least 25° C and between 0 phr and 60 phr of a plasticizing liquid. Particular embodiments may include the elastomer component having a Tg of between -90 °C and -60 °C and/or may further have the elastomer component included in an amount of at least 95 phr.
摘要:
A tread for a tire, the tread comprising a rubber composition that is based upon a cross-linkable elastomer composition, the cross-linkable elastomer composition comprising, per hundred parts by weight of rubber (phr), a high-Tg rubber being a highly unsaturated diene elastomer having a glass transition temperature of between −30° C. and 0° C., a low-Tg rubber being a highly unsaturated diene elastomer having a glass transition temperature of between −110° C. and −60° C. The high-Tg and the low-Tg elastomers are incompatible and this provides, among other advantages, improved snow traction of the tread when compared to tire treads having lower Tg.
摘要:
Tire treads having improved traction properties while surprisingly still maintaining good material cohesion properties, the tire treads comprising a rubber composition based upon a highly unsaturated diene elastomer and between 95 phr and 160 phr of an inorganic reinforcing filler. The composition may further include between 60 phr and 130 phr of a plasticizing system made up of a plasticizing resin having a Tg of at least 25 °C and a plasticizing liquid. The rubber composition is cured with an ultra-efficient sulfur curing system having a sulfur to accelerator weight ratio adjusted between 0.02 and 0.2 to provide the rubber composition with an MA300/G* ratio of greater than 1.7, wherein the elongation modulus MA300 at 300 % is measured at 23 °C and the shear modulus G* is measured at 60 °C.
摘要:
Tire treads having improved traction properties while surprisingly still maintaining good material cohesion properties, the tire treads comprising a rubber composition based upon a highly unsaturated diene elastomer and between 95 phr and 160 phr of an inorganic reinforcing filler. The composition may further include between 60 phr and 130 phr of a plasticizing system made up of a plasticizing resin having a Tg of at least 25 °C and a plasticizing liquid. The rubber composition is cured with an ultra-efficient sulfur curing system having a sulfur to accelerator weight ratio adjusted between 0.02 and 0.2 to provide the rubber composition with an MA300/G* ratio of greater than 1.7, wherein the elongation modulus MA300 at 300 % is measured at 23 °C and the shear modulus G* is measured at 60 °C.