Tire rubber composition and pneumatic tire
AssigneeSumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
InventorMichio Hirayama
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Abstract
The present invention provides a rubber composition for tires which enables a balanced improvement in rolling resistance, abrasion resistance, and wet-skid performance. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for tires, including a rubber blend including a diene rubber A modified with a specific acrylamide compound, and a diene rubber B modified with either a combination of a specific silicon or tin compound and a specific modifying compound or with the modifying compound, the combined rubbers A and B having a weight average molecular weight of 300,000 to 1,400,000; and a specific silica.
Claims7
A rubber composition for tires, comprising
- a diene rubber A modified with an acrylamide compound represented by Formula (I):
- wherein R1 represents hydrogen or a methyl group;
- R2 and R3 each represent an alkyl group;
- and n represents an integer, and
- a diene rubber B modified with either a combination of a silicon or tin compound represented by Formula (II) and a modifying compound represented by Formula (III) or with a modifying compound represented by Formula (III):
- RaMXb (II)
- wherein R represents an alkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, or aromatic hydrocarbon group;
- M represents silicon or tin;
- X represents a halogen;
- a represents an integer of 0 to 2;
- and b represents an integer of 2 to 4,
- wherein R4 to R6 are the same as or different from one another, each representing a C1 to C8 alkyl group;
- R7 to R12 are the same as or different from one another, each representing a C1 to C8 alkoxy or alkyl group;
- and p to r are the same as or different from one another, each representing an integer of 1 to 8, the combined modified diene rubbers A and B having a weight average molecular weight of 300,000 to 1,400,000, and
- the rubber composition further comprising silica having a CTAB specific surface area of 180 m2/g or more and a BET specific surface area of 185 m2/g or more.
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