Railroad rail track pad composition and railroad rail track pad
AssigneeMitsui Chemicals, Inc.
InventorsTatsuya Sakai, Yuji Ishii, Kiyohide Inomata, Kotaro Ichino
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Abstract
A railroad rail track pad composition including a particular ethylene·α-olefin·non-conjugated polyene random copolymer (A), clay (B), and a sulfur atom-containing silane coupling agent (C) is used in order to lower the viscosity of a rubber composition that is a raw material for molding while suppressing lowering of the rubber elasticity of a crosslinked and molded product to be obtained. In addition, a molded product obtained by crosslinking the composition, particularly a molded product obtained by crosslinking and foam-molding the composition, is provided with rubber elasticity that is suitable as a railroad rail track pad.
Claims9
A railroad rail track pad composition comprising an ethylene/α-olefin/non-conjugated polyene random copolymer (A), clay (B), and a sulfur atom-containing silane coupling agent (C), wherein
- the ethylene/α-olefin/non-conjugated polyene random copolymer (A) is:
- a copolymer comprising structural units derived from ethylene [a], an α-olefin [b] having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, a non-conjugated polyene [c-1] comprising in a molecule only one partial structure represented by the following structural formula (I) or (II):
- wherein (I) is a partial structure of a cyclic olefin,
- and a non-conjugated polyene [c-2] comprising in a molecule a total of two or more partial structures selected from the group consisting of structural formulas (I) and (II), and satisfying conditions of the following (1) to (6):
- (1) the structural unit derived from the α-olefin [b] having 3 to 20 carbon atoms is present at 10 to 50 mole % in 100 mole % of all structural units,
- (2) a sum of a mole % of the structural unit derived from the non-conjugated polyene [c-1] and a mole % of the structural unit derived from the non-conjugated polyene [c-2] is 1.0 to 6.0 mole %,
- (3) a ratio of the mole % of the structural unit derived from the non-conjugated polyene [c-1] to the mole % of the structural unit derived from the non-conjugated polyene [c-2] ([c-1]/[c-2]) is 75/25 to 99.5/0.5,
- (4) Moony viscosity measured at 100° C. [ML1+4 (100° C.)] is 10 to 90,
- (5) an apparent iodine value of the structural unit derived from the non-conjugated polyene [c-2] is 0.1 to 3.0 g/100 g,
- (6) the following formula (i) is satisfied:
- 50>activation energy of the flow(Ea)[kJ/mol]>35 (i),
- wherein the clay (B) is surface-treated with a silane coupling agent, and
- wherein a compression set when the composition is formed into a crosslinked and formed product is 10% or less.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.