The disclosure relates to tire tread compositions and methods for making. The compositions include a rubber, a rosin ester resin and at least one filler. The rosin ester resin is characterized as having a PAN number of less than 25, an acid number less than 20, a hydroxyl number of less than 30, a combined acid number and hydroxyl value of less than 50. The tire tread composition has a wet grip resistance to rolling resistance indicator ratio ((tan δ at 0° C.)/tan δ at 60° C.) higher than a tire tread composition containing a comparable amount of a rosin ester having a combined acid number and hydroxyl value of more than 50.

The introduction of graphene as an additive in truck tire treads is disclosed. The product shows increased electrical resistance in tire treads, with no tradeoffs in other characteristics.

The present invention is directed to a rubber composition comprising 30 to 100 phr of at least one styrene-butadiene rubber; 0 to 70 phr of at least one further diene-based elastomer; 100 to 200 phr of silica; at least 30 phr of a hydrocarbon resin; and at least 0.1 phr of one or more of amino fatty acids and fatty acid amides. Moreover, the present invention is directed to a tire comprising such a rubber composition.

The invention solves the problem of creating a rubber composition that can be used in a solid tyre of an extremely simple and manufacturable design to provide safe and hygienic operation of the tyre without accumulating a static electric charge and without leaving black marks on a floor surface. An electrically conductive rubber composition for non-marking solid tyres is proposed, which composition comprises (1) a rubber or a mixture of at least two rubbers, (2) oxide fillers and modifiers, (3) organic plasticisers and modifiers, (4) a curing system and (5) carbon nanotubes, wherein the total amount of carbon nanotubes and carbon of other allotropic modifications constitutes from 0.05 to 1.5 wt % relative to the amount of rubber. A non-marking solid tyre made from the electrically conductive rubber composition is also proposed.

Disclosed are a rubber composition for tire tread and a tire manufactured using the same, in which the rubber composition for tire tread comprises a raw material rubber, which comprises a first solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber with a low glass transition temperature (Tg) and a second solution-polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber with a high glass transition temperature (Tg), a reinforcing filler, a silane coupling agent, a functionalized liquid polymer, and a first resin with a high glass transition temperature and a second resin with a low glass transition temperature. The rubber composition for tire tread maximizes the dispersion of silica and the interaction with rubber, and thus, the rubber composition is excellent in all of the properties with respect to wear resistance, low fuel economy, and braking performance.

This invention relates to a rubber composition containing filler reinforcement comprised of precipitated silica with silica coupling agent therefore and conjugated diene-based elastomer which contains end-chain functionalization with multi-functional groups. The groups functionalizing the elastomer are multi-functional in the sense of containing one group reactive with at least one of said precipitated silica and silica coupling agent and another different group reactive with diene-based elastomers through sulfur cure of the rubber composition. A sulfur cured rubber composition containing said end-chain functionalization is provided. A tire is provided having a component comprised of said rubber composition. Representative of said tire component is a tire tread.

Elastomeric compositions are described that include at least one filler that are carbon nanostructures or fragments thereof. Methods to prepare elastomeric compositions are further described. Loadings of the carbon nanostructures can be from about 0.1 phr to about 50 phr or a volume fraction of from about 0.1 vol % to about 20 vol %.

The present invention relates to a conjugated diene-based polymer or a modified conjugated diene-based polymer, which has excellent wet skid resistance and abrasion resistance in a balanced way, and a rubber composition including the same, and by controlling the microstructure of the polymer such that a full width at half maximum (FWHM) value of a tan δ peak shown in a temperature range of -100° C. to 100° C. becomes 20° C. or higher in a tan δ graph in accordance with temperature, derived from dynamic viscoelasticity analysis by an Advanced Rheometric Expansion System (ARES), excellent viscoelasticity behavior properties may be shown, and accordingly, the improvement of overall physical properties may be expected.

The present invention is directed to a tire comprising a tread, two sidewalls, a carcass and at least two belts arranged radially between the carcass and the tread in a crown area of the tire. The tread has at least one axially outer edge portion covering the axially outermost edge of at least one of the belts and comprising a different rubber composition than a portion of the tread neighboring the axially outer edge portion of the tread. Furthermore, one of the sidewalls at least partially covers and contacts the axially outer surface of the axially outer edge portion of the tread.

A rubber composition according to an embodiment contains a rubber component and silica. In the rubber component, an amount of a vinyl bond unit derived from butadiene in a total amount of the rubber component is 10 mass % or more, and a content of a solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber is less than 50 mass %. A content of the silica is 90 parts by mass to 200 parts by mass, and a content of a metal oxide is less than 0.5 parts by mass, with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component.