A heavy vehicle tire tread that contains a rubber component and a reinforcing filler that includes silica and a second filler. A first and second vulcanization accelerator are used together with sulfur and a silane coupling agent in the tire tread, wherein the 300% modulus of the tire tread is 8 MPa or more. The silane coupling agent, sulfur and total reinforcing filler content in the tire tread composition are present in a ratio range of 1:0.4:0.4 to 1:1.4:1.4.

The present technology provides a rubber composition having: from 30 to 50 parts by mass of carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of from 100 to 130 m.sup.2/g, from 25 to 40 parts by mass of carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of from 37 to 60 m.sup.2/g, from 1.5 to 2.2 parts by mass of sulfur as a pure sulfur content, and from 110 to 200 mass % of a sulfenamide-based vulcanization accelerator relative to the pure sulfur content compounded in 100 parts by mass of diene rubber containing from 30 to 60 parts by mass of isoprene rubber and from 40 to 70 parts by mass of butadiene rubber.

The present technology provides a rubber composition having: from 30 to 50 parts by mass of carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of from 100 to 130 m.sup.2/g, from 25 to 40 parts by mass of carbon black having a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of from 37 to 60 m.sup.2/g, from 1.5 to 2.2 parts by mass of sulfur as a pure sulfur content, and from 110 to 200 mass % of a sulfenamide-based vulcanization accelerator relative to the pure sulfur content compounded in 100 parts by mass of diene rubber containing from 30 to 60 parts by mass of isoprene rubber and from 40 to 70 parts by mass of butadiene rubber.

Disclosed are a rubber composition for a motor mount that exhibits improved fatigue resistance and maintains desired mechanical properties using a second crosslinking agent having a first functional group and a second functional group different from each other, and a rubber for motor mounts including the same. The rubber composition includes a natural rubber, a filler, an activating agent, an antiaging agent, a dispersant, a first crosslinking agent containing sulfur, a vulcanization accelerator, and a second crosslinking agent having different first functional groups and second functional groups, wherein the first functional group is N-hydroxysuccinimide ester (NHS ester), and wherein the second functional group is maleimide.

Disclosed are a rubber composition for a motor mount that exhibits improved fatigue resistance and maintains desired mechanical properties using a second crosslinking agent having a first functional group and a second functional group different from each other, and a rubber for motor mounts including the same. The rubber composition includes a natural rubber, a filler, an activating agent, an antiaging agent, a dispersant, a first crosslinking agent containing sulfur, a vulcanization accelerator, and a second crosslinking agent having different first functional groups and second functional groups, wherein the first functional group is N-hydroxysuccinimide ester (NHS ester), and wherein the second functional group is maleimide.

The present invention relates to a modifier represented by Formula 1, a method for preparing the same, a modified conjugated diene-based polymer including a functional group derived from the modifier and having a high modification ratio, and a method for preparing the polymer.

Provided is a rubber composition having a high vulcanization rate and excellent in storage stability. The rubber composition contains a rubber component that contains at least one type of a dienic rubber, a filler, a vulcanizing agent, a compound represented by a formula (1), a compound represented by a formula (2), and a vulcanization accelerator except the compound represented by the formula (1), wherein the total amount of the vulcanization accelerator and the compound represented by the formula (1) is 1.3 to 2.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. ##STR00001##

Provided is a rubber composition having a high vulcanization rate and excellent in storage stability. The rubber composition contains a rubber component that contains at least one type of a dienic rubber, a filler, a vulcanizing agent, a compound represented by a formula (1), a compound represented by a formula (2), and a vulcanization accelerator except the compound represented by the formula (1), wherein the total amount of the vulcanization accelerator and the compound represented by the formula (1) is 1.3 to 2.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. ##STR00001##

Provided is a rubber composition having a high vulcanization rate and excellent in storage stability. The rubber composition contains a rubber component that contains at least one type of a dienic rubber, a filler, a vulcanizing agent, a compound represented by a formula (1), a compound represented by a formula (2), and a vulcanization accelerator except the compound represented by the formula (1), wherein the total amount of the vulcanization accelerator and the compound represented by the formula (1) is 1.3 to 2.0 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component. ##STR00001##

The present invention relates to elastomeric compositions for tyres and relative compounds, components and tyres comprising them, said compositions comprising an elastomeric polymer, a phenolic product, optionally already partially cross-linked, optionally an aldehyde and/or at least a methylene donor product and an oxidised carbon allotrope as a cross-linking catalyst. Advantageously, this catalyst is able to complete the cross-linking reactions of the phenolic resins in the conventional times and conditions of vulcanisation, or even more rapidly, providing mechanically stable compounds.