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AssigneeThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakashi Fukutomi, Takumi Sekiguchi, Issei Nakakita, Mitsuru Naito, Yuichi Kobayashi, Koji Watanabe, Tetsuo Ikegami, Satoshi Makino, Naoya Miyawaki, Tetsuya Mizone
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Disclosed are a pneumatic tire, which exhibits excellent puncture-preventing function while avoiding inconvenience aroused when a sealant layer is formed based on decomposition reaction of polyisobutylene, a process for producing the same and a sealant rubber composition. This pneumatic tire is provided with the sealant layer in a region of the inner surface of the tire which corresponds at least to a tread. The sealant layer is made of an adhesive sealant obtained by heating a rubber composition containing 0.2 to 20 parts by weight of peroxide per 100 parts by weight of a rubber ingredient containing not less than 50 wt. % of polyisobutylene. 5 to 50 parts by weight of a liquid ethylene/α-olefin copolymer, liquid polybutadiene or liquid polyisoprene are added as an adhesive of the sealant layer.
A pneumatic tire in which an adhesive sealant layer is disposed in a region of an inner surface of the tire which corresponds at least to a tread, wherein the sealant layer is made of an adhesive sealant obtained by heating a rubber composition containing 0.2 to 20 parts by weight of peroxide per 100 parts by weight of a rubber ingredient containing not less than 50 wt. % of polyisobutylene, and a cover rubber layer made of a rubber composition containing butadiene rubber is disposed on an inner side of the sealant layer.
A process for producing a pneumatic tire, wherein a sheet of a sealant rubber composition, which contains 0.2 to 20 parts by weight of peroxide per 100 parts by weight of a rubber ingredient containing not less than 50 wt. % of polyisobutylene, is disposed in a region of an inner surface of an unvulcanized tire which corresponds at least to a tread, a cover rubber layer made of a rubber composition, a main ingredient of which is butadiene rubber, is disposed on an inner side of the sheet of the sealant rubber composition, and an adhesive sealant layer is formed by heating the sealant rubber composition at the same time as vulcanization of the unvulcanized tire.
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