B60C1/0016

RUBBER COMPOSITION AND A TIRE

In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a rubber composition comprising 70 phr to 90 phr of styrene butadiene rubber, wherein said styrene butadiene rubber comprises a first styrene butadiene rubber having a glass transition temperature within a range of −49° C. to −15° C. and a second styrene butadiene rubber having a glass transition temperature within a range of −50° C. to −89° C. Furthermore, the rubber composition comprises from 10 phr to 30 phr of one or more of natural rubber and synthetic polyisoprene rubber, 100 phr to 200 phr of silica, and at least 25 phr of at least one terpene resin having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of at most 1000 g/mol. Moreover, the invention is directed to a tire comprising such a rubber composition, in particular in the tread of the tire.

Modified conjugated diene rubber

A modified conjugated diene rubber having a modifying structure derived from a siloxane compound at at least one terminal of a polymer chain containing conjugated diene monomer unit and a monomer unit of a vinyl compound having a functional group interactive with silica.

METHOD FOR PRODUCING A RUBBER COMPOSITION COMPRISING A RUBBER CRUMB
20230028202 · 2023-01-26 ·

The invention relates to a process which responds to this problem scenario. The invention therefore relates to a process for preparing a rubber composition based on at least one diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, a crumb rubber and a crosslinking system, said process comprising at least the following steps: incorporating the reinforcing filler into the diene elastomer, all at once or in several stages, and mixing; when the temperature of the mixture reaches a temperature of greater than 100° C., adding the crumb rubber; continuing the mixing up to a maximum temperature of between 120° C. and 190° C.; cooling the mixture to a temperature of less than 100° C.; incorporating the crosslinking system and mixing up to a maximum temperature of less than 110° C.

TIRE
20230024410 · 2023-01-26 · ·

The present disclosure provides a tire which makes it possible to reduce the increase in hardness and the decrease in wet grip performance from before to after heat aging. The present disclosure relates to a tire including a tread, the tread including an elastomer composition containing a styrene elastomer and urethane particles, the tread satisfying the following relationship (1): (M100a−M100f)/M100f×100≤38 wherein M100f represents the stress at 100% elongation (23° C.) before heat aging, and M100a represents the stress at 100% elongation (23° C.) after heat aging.

TIRE
20230023252 · 2023-01-26 · ·

It is an object to provide a tire having well-improved fuel efficiency, wet grip performance, abrasion resistance, and wet grip performance at a later stage of abrasion. Provided is a tire comprising a tread part of a rubber composition comprising a rubber component comprising an isoprene-based rubber and a styrene-butadiene rubber, wherein a vinyl content of the styrene-butadiene rubber is greater than 26 mol %, wherein a given ratio A of an ash content of the rubber composition is greater than 25 mol %, wherein the tread part comprises two or more circumferential main grooves extending in a tire circumferential direction, and land parts partitioned by the circumferential main grooves, wherein at least one land part of the land parts comprises at least one given flask-like circumferential groove extending in the tire circumferential direction.

RUBBER COMPOUND

A rubber compound having at least two glass transition temperatures Tg1 and Tg2 is based on at least two rubber compositions C1 and C2, C1 comprising at least one elastomer E1 with Tg1, C2 comprising at least one elastomer E2 with Tg2 and a reinforcing filler, E2 being different from E1, where Tg1 is above or equal to -50° C., the rubber compound satisfies Tg1-Tg2 ≥ 23° C. and has a loss factor profile exhibiting the change in tan δ as a function of the temperature in °C. over a range extending from -80° C. to 60° C. at a frequency of 10 Hz and a constant stress of 0.7 MPa and exhibiting one or more peaks, such that all the tan δ peaks present at a temperature above Tg1 have a width at half height less than or equal to 23° C.; and E1 is predominant.

TREAD WITH HIGH DRAINAGE

A tread comprising a plurality of grooves and manufactured using a rubber compound comprising at least one cross-linkable unsaturated chain polymeric base, a filler, a vulcanization system and a wax comprising at least 50% by weight nonacosandiols. At least part of said grooves has a hydrophobic surface structure comprising a plurality of protruding elements.

TIRE
20230226856 · 2023-07-20 · ·

An object of the invention is to provide a tire having good steering stability performance after wear and in which a decrease in wet performance after wear is suppressed. The tire comprises a tread being composed of a rubber layer in which change in hardness after thermal deterioration is within a predetermined range and having a groove shape such that a sea ratio after wear with respect to a sea ratio as when the tire is newly used.

Tire with an element attached to the surface thereof and method for attaching an element to the surface of a tire

A tire comprises an interior surface and an exterior surface, an accommodating region arranged on one of said interior and exterior surfaces, an adhesive layer arranged on the accommodating region and a member attached to the accommodating region by the adhesive layer, in which the adhesive layer is based on a silanized polyether.

Tire comprising optimized architecture and tread pattern

A tire (1) for a vehicle has a tread surface having a transverse radius RT and comprises a crown layer (3) that comprises at least one undulation (312) in line with a rib (26). The undulation (312) is such that it is radially on the outside of the points of the undulated layer in line with the center of the bottom face of the circumferential furrow (25) closest to the undulation (312) and has an amplitude at least equal to 1 mm. The radial distance (da) between at least one contact edge corner of a rib (26) in line with which an undulation is located and the transverse radius RT of the rib is at least equal to 0.2 mm and at most equal to 2 mm.