Abstract:
The present invention relates to a tire with a carbon black-containing, black-colored, circumferential tread of a cap/base construction, wherein said tread cap has a lug and groove configuration and wherein the outer surface of a major portion of said grooves are designed to be ground contacting, and a co-extruded thin outer non-carbon black-containing rubber layer of a non-black color wherein said outer rubber layer is integral with and circumferentially extends from the axial outer edge of said tread cap to include at least of a visible surface of at least one groove in said tread cap. In one aspect, said tread contains a pair of black colored, carbon black reinforced, tread miniwings which extend from the axial outer edge of the tread over a portion of the tire sidewall, wherein said thin outer rubber layer joins said miniwing and wherein said tread cap, tread base, tread miniwings and thin outer layer are co-extruded, co-cured and therefore integral with each other.
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire having an air permeation preventive layer comprising a low permeability thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer having a thermoplastic resin composition as a continuous phase and a rubber composition as a dispersed phase, in which a barrier resin composition is contained, which low permeability thermoplastic elastomer composition has a phase structure in which the barrier resin composition is dispersed in the form of a flat state in the thermoplastic elastomer, is abundant in flexibility, is superior in gas permeation preventive property, and enables the tire to be reduced in weight.
Abstract:
A composite tread structure (22) comprises a low modulus at -20.degree. C. rubber outer layer (23) and a high modulus at -20.degree. C. rubber inner layer (24), thicker than the outer layer. The outer layer is preferably made from a rubber having a glass transition temperature lower than the glass transition temperature of the rubber comprising the inner layer. Such a tire generally improves snow and ice handling and maintains good wet and dry traction. A pneumatic tire (10) having improved snow and ice traction employs a composite tread (22) comprising a low modulus at -20.degree. C. rubber outer layer component (23) and a high modulus at -20.degree. C. rubber inner layer rubber component (24), thicker than the outer layer component. Finally, a method for improving the snow and ice traction of pneumatic tires comprises the step of applying to the tire carcass prior to curing, a composite tread comprising a low modulus at -20.degree. C. rubber outer layer component and a high modulus at -20.degree. C. rubber inner layer component, thicker than the outer layer component.
Abstract:
A pneumatic vehicle tire has a carcass with reinforcing members and radially inwardly positioned beads and a tread strip with a tread positioned radially outwardly on the carcass. An additional layer is placed on the tread strip for reinforcing the tread. The additional layer is made of a rubber or thermoplastic material. The additional layer has a tensile modulus of elasticity that is greater than the tensile modulus of elasticity of the tread strip. The additional layer is provided with reinforcement elements.
Abstract:
A tire comprises a tread which comprises a plurality of tread pattern elements (1) delimited by cut-outs (3, 4), the tread pattern elements respectively comprising at least one lateral face (13, 14, 15, 16), and a first rubber composition (FC) at least partially covered on at least one of the lateral face (13, 14, 15, 16) with a layer of a second rubber composition (SC) based on an elastomer matrix comprising more than 55 phr and up to 100 phr of a first diene elastomer having a glass transition temperature of less than −25° C. and 0 to less than 45 phr of a second diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler comprising more than 100 phr of a reinforcing inorganic filler, and more than 45 phr of a plasticizing agent predominately comprising at least one hydrocarbon resin having a glass transition temperature of more than 20° C.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire that rotates about a center axis includes a tread rubber that comprises a contact patch; a groove provided in the tread rubber, the groove having an inner surface that includes a bottom surface and side surfaces that connect the bottom surface to the contact patch; and a coating film disposed covering at least a portion of the inner surface, the coating film reducing exposure of ultraviolet light to the inner surface.
Abstract:
A pneumatic tire tread having a reinforcing part on front surface side walls of a block to improve performance on ice while improving performance on snow, and a pneumatic tire having such a tread, wherein the difference G between a distance Rt measured from the tire axis of rotation to the outermost side of the upper surface of the block and a distance Re measured from the tire axis of rotation to two front surface edges is between 0.2 mm and 2.0 mm in a new article, the distance from the axis of rotation to any point in the region of the block upper surface excluding the front surface edge is greater than Re, and the distance between the portion at the outermost side of the reinforcing part measured in the radial direction and the front surface edge is no greater than 2.0 mm.
Abstract:
The present invention aims to provide methods for surface-modifying a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer, which can cost-effectively impart a variety of functions, such as sliding properties or biocompatibility, according to the application. The present invention relates to a method for surface-modifying an object of a rubber vulcanizate or a thermoplastic elastomer, the method including: step 1 of forming polymerization initiation points A on the surface of the object; and step 2 of radically polymerizing a non-functional monomer, starting from the polymerization initiation points A, to grow non-functional polymer chains, and further radically polymerizing a fluorine-containing functional monomer to grow fluorine-containing functional polymer chains.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a rubber composition comprising at least one rubber component, between about 50 phr and about 120 phr of a filler, wherein at least 20 phr of the filler is a high surface area carbon black. Further, the composition comprises between 10 phr and 30 phr of a phenolic resin. The present invention is further directed to a tire tread or a tire comprising such a composition.