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US 2003/0125448 A1Published application
Pneumatic tire having a rubber component containing a tin/amino functionalized rubber and an inversion carbon black
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsGeorges Marcel Victor Thielen, Kenneth Allen Bates
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Abstract
There is disclosed a pneumatic tire having a rubberized component comprising: (A) a copolymer rubber that contains amino groups bound to the rubber and at least 40 percent of the terminal ends of the copolymer are modified or coupled with a tin compound; and (B) 10 to 150 phr of an inversion carbon black.
Claims15
A pneumatic tire having a rubber component made from a rubber composition comprising:
- (A) a copolymer rubber of a conjugated diolefin and an aromatic vinyl compound, wherein
- (1) the content of amino groups bound to the rubber (nitrogen content value) is 0.0025 to 0.20 mmol/g of copolymer rubber;
- (2) the content of the polymerization units of the aromatic vinyl compound is from 5 to 50 weight percent based on the copolymer rubber,
- (3) the content of vinyl bonds in the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin (the total content of a 1,2-bond and a 3,4-bond) is from 50 to 90 mol percent or more based on the polymerization unit of the conjugated diolefin;
- (4) at least 40 percent of the polymerization end terminals of the copolymer rubber is modified or coupled with a tin compound;
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- (5) the molecular weight distribution is polymodol;
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- (B) from 10 to 150 phr of an inversion carbon black having the properties a particle size distribution curve with an absolute slope of less than 400,000 nm3, the absolute slope AS being determined from measured aggregate size distribution using the following formula:
- 3 AS = ∑ i = 1 k ( H i ( x i - x _ ) ) 3 ∑ i = 1 k H i
- wherein H1 denotes the frequency at which the particle diameter X1 occurs and x is the particle diameter of the aggregate, whose weight corresponds to the average particle weight of the carbon black aggregate, the summation being carried out in the range of 1 to 3000 nm in equidistant spacing for each nanometer
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