The present invention relates to a rubber composition comprising rubber, a first filler comprising a carbon-based inorganic compound, wherein the carbon-based inorganic compound comprises interconnected crystalline carbon nanofilaments and a second filler comprising silica. Said rubber composition can be used for coating wires or cords which are used for reinforcing rubber products such as tires. It can be used in tires such as in carcass plies, belt plies, ply strips and overlay plies. The present invention further relates to a pneumatic tire comprising said rubber composition.

Novel and long-acting rubber anti-degradant and rubber composition comprising the same for tires. The anti-degradant comprises at least two compounds, each of which is selected from a compound of Formula I, II, III-a, or III-b:

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and each of the compounds have different formulae from others, and can't be compounds of formula III-a and III-b at the same time when the anti-degradant consists of only 2 compounds. The anti-degradant is used to provide a rubber composition with improved long-term resistance to thermo-oxidative aging and ozone aging.

A rubber composition including 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber containing natural rubber, and blended with from 40 to 80 parts by mass of carbon black, cobalt neodecanoate borate represented by the following Chemical Formula (1), a phenolic resin, a curing agent, sulfur, and a vulcanization accelerator, wherein the carbon black has DBP oil absorption of from 5010.sup.5 to 8010.sup.5 m.sup.3/kg, and iodine adsorption of from 100 to 150 g/kg, and a vulcanized rubber has characteristics of a dynamic storage modulus (E) at a dynamic strain of 2% and at 20 C. of 8 MPa or more, a tangent loss (tan ) at 60 C. of 0.20 or less, and the number of times of repetition until fracture is caused in a constant strain fatigue test at a strain of 60% and at 400 rpm of 45,000 or more.

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A pneumatic tire containing a polyester (e.g., polyethylene terephthalate or polyethylene naphthalate) derived from a non-fossil raw material. In a preferred embodiment, a polyester (e.g., polyethylene terephthalate or polyethylene naphthalate) in which a linear or cyclic moiety is produced using a raw material derived from a non-fossil raw material is used in the pneumatic tire. A pneumatic tire in which polyethylene terephthalate or polyethylene naphthalate produced using a raw material derived from a non-fossil raw material is used as a carcass material or a belt reinforcing material.

This invention relates to improved adhesion compositions and textile materials and articles treated therewith. The improved adhesion composition comprises a non-crosslinked resorcinol-formaldehyde and/or resorcinol-furfural condensate (or a phenol-formaldehyde condensate that is soluble in water), a rubber latex, and an aldehyde component such as 2-furfuraldehyde. The composition may be applied to textile substrates and used for improving the adhesion between the treated textile substrates and rubber materials. End-use articles that contain the treated textile-rubber composite include, without limitation, automobile tires, belts, and hoses as well as printing blankets.

The invention relates to a tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed of at least two working crown layers each formed of reinforcing elements inserted between skim layers of rubber compound, a first layer S of polymer compound being in contact with at least one working crown layer and in contact with the carcass reinforcement and the crown reinforcement comprising at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements. In accordance with the invention, the elastic modulus under tension at 10% elongation of at least one skim layer of at least one working crown layer is less than 8.5 MPa, the maximum value of tan(), denoted tan()max of the said at least one skim layer of at least one working crown layer is less than 0.100, and the complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60 C. on the return cycle, of the said first layer S of polymer compound is greater than 1.35 MPa.

A tire that includes a band and a belt, the band is layered outward of the belt in a radial direction of the tire, the belt includes two or more layers layered in the radial direction of the tire, the band includes a rubber composition and a polyester cord, each of the two or more layers of the belt includes a rubber composition and a cord, and a gauge between the cords of two adjacent layers is not greater than 0.40 mm.

The present invention provides a pneumatic tire with well improved fuel economy, rubber tensile strength, and abrasion resistance. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire formed from a rubber composition, the rubber composition containing: a hydrogenated copolymer obtained by copolymerization of an aromatic vinyl compound and a conjugated diene compound, the hydrogenated copolymer having a degree of hydrogenation of the conjugated diene units of 75 mol % or more; silica; and a silane coupling agent 1 containing a carbonylthio group (SC(O)) but no mercapto group (SH) and/or a silane coupling agent 2 containing a mercapto group (SH), the rubber composition containing, per 100% by mass of a rubber component, 75% by mass or more of the hydrogenated copolymer.

A tire comprising a crown reinforcement formed from at least two working crown layers of reinforcing elements and at least one layer of circumferential reinforcing elements, wherein, the tensile modulus of elasticity at 10% elongation of at least one skim coat of at least one working crown layer is greater than 9 MPa and the maximum value of tan(), denoted tan()max, of said skim coat is less than 0.100.

Tire comprising a crown reinforcement comprising two working crown layers having unequal axial widths. Layer C of rubber compound is placed between ends of the working crown layers. Second layer S of polymer compound is in contact with at least one working crown layer and the carcass reinforcement, which comprises a layer of circumferential reinforcing elements arranged radially between two working crown layers. Distance d between the end of the axially narrowest working layer and the working layer separated from it by layer C is 1.1<d<2.2, being the diameter of the reinforcing elements, in a meridian plane. Second layer S is made up of a filled elastomer blend having a macro dispersion coefficient Z65 and a maximum tan() value less than 0.100. Its complex dynamic shear modulus G*, measured at 10% and 60 C. on the return cycle is greater than 1.35 MPa.