Lubricating compositions comprising an azole-acrylic adduct formed by contacting an azole compound with an acrylic. The adduct formed has at least one nitrogen-alkyl group comprising at least one acyl. The lubricating composition also comprises an antiwear agent and an antioxidant. Methods of lubricating an internal combustion engine comprising contacting the internal combustion engine with the lubricating composition comprising an azole-acrylic adduct formed by contacting an azole compound with an acrylic. Methods of reducing corrosion and/or seal deterioration in an internal combustion engine. The use of an azole-acrylic adduct in a lubricating composition to reduce corrosion and/or seal deterioration in an internal combustion engine.

A lubricant composition includes a polyalkylene glycol base oil component in an amount of at least about 60 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the lubricant composition. The lubricant composition has a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of from about 4 to about 50 cSt and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of from about 20 to about 700 cSt, each measured in accordance with ASTM D445.

The invention provides a lubricating oil composition for automatic transmissions is made such that it comprises proportionately as its main constituents: 60 to 98 mass % as low viscosity base oils being base oils belonging to Groups 2 to 4 of the API (American Petroleum Institute) base oil categories wherein the kinematic viscosity at 100° C. is 2 to 5 mm.sup.2/s (Fischer-Tropsch synthetic oil comprising at least 45 to 80 mass %); 1 to 20 mass % as high-viscosity base oils being metallocene/poly-α-olefins with a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 100 to 600 mm.sup.2/s; and 1 to 20 mass % being a polymethacrylate with a weight-average molecular weight of 10,000 to 50,000. The viscosity index of this composition is not less than 190, the Brookfield viscosity at −40° C. is not more than 5000 mPa.Math.s, the 100° C. kinematic viscosity is 5 to 7 mm.sup.2/s, and the rate of reduction of the 100° C. kinematic viscosity after a KRL shear stability test (60° C., 20 hr) is not more than 3%.

The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition for two-wheeled vehicles, which is able to not only suppress a lowering of fatigue life of engine parts while making fuel saving properties (in particular, fuel saving properties at the time of low speed) favorable but also make clutch friction characteristics of two-wheeled vehicles favorable. The present invention is concerned with a lubricating oil composition for two-wheeled vehicles, including a base oil (A) having a viscosity index of 120 or more, an ethylene-propylene copolymer (B), and a metal-based detergent (C), wherein the content of the ethylene-propylene copolymer (B) is 0.30% by mass or more on the basis of the whole amount of the lubricating oil composition; the metal-based detergent (C) contains a calcium phenate (C1) and a calcium sulfonate (C2), and a mass ratio of the content (Ca.sub.1) of the calcium phenate (C1) as expressed in terms of a calcium atom to the content (Ca.sub.2) of the calcium sulfonate (C2) as expressed in terms of a calcium atom is satisfied with a relation of (1.0≤Ca.sub.1/Ca.sub.2); and the lubricating oil composition has a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. is less than 9.3 mm.sup.2/s and an HTHS viscosity at 150° C. is 2.9 mPa.Math.s or more.

Provided are: a lubricating oil composition containing a mineral oil (A) having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 5 to 15 mm.sup.2/s and a flash point of 180° C. or higher, a synthetic oil (B) having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 5 to 15 mm.sup.2/s and a flash point of 190° C. or higher, an amide compound (C) and a polyol ester compound (D), which has a low viscosity and fuel saving performance, which can be used in high-temperature environments, and which has excellent gear anti-seizing property and anti-shudder performance; and a lubrication method and a transmission using the lubricating oil composition.

The disclosed technology relates to the inhibition of corrosion on electrically conductive componentry subjected to a lubricant composition, but that is not submersed in the lubricant composition, or in other words, vapor phase corrosion inhibition. The technology more particularly relates to the use of azole compounds capable of inhibiting corrosion of the electrically conductive componentry in the vapor space above a lubricant composition, and often in the liquid phase of the lubricant composition as well.

The disclosed technology relates to a lubricant composition for automotive gears, axles and bearings, the lubricant composition containing an oil of lubricating viscosity and a metal thiophosphate compound, such as zinc dialkyldithiophosphate, as well as a method of obtaining extreme pressure performance in automotive gears, axles and bearings at lower sulfur content than is typical, by lubricating such automotive gears, axles and bearings with a lubricant composition containing a metal thiophosphate compound, such as zinc dialkyldithiophosphate.

A lubricant composition includes a base oil present in an amount of greater than 70 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the lubricant composition and an antioxidant. The antioxidant has the structure: wherein each X is independently C-A or N, so long as at least one X is N but no more than two of X are N. Moreover, A is H, cyano or an electron donating group that: (1) has an atom having at least one lone pair of electrons that is bonded directly to the aromatic ring; or (2) is an aryl group or alkyl group. Further, each R is independently H, an alkyl group, or aryl group and each R′ is independently an alkyl group or an aryl group. ##STR00001##

The present invention relates to the field of multipurpose lubricants which may be used in the various components of automotive vehicles, notably in the engine, the transmission or the hydraulic circuit.

The invention relates to the use of at least one polymer which improves the viscosity index, chosen from hydrogenated copolymers of diene and of aromatic vinyl, in a lubricant composition for decreasing the viscosity of said lubricant composition in the course of the use of said lubricant composition during the lubrication of the various components of an industrial vehicle, notably of a diesel engine industrial vehicle, such as the engine, the gearbox and the hydraulic circuit, said lubricant composition undergoing at least one thermal shear during its use.

A VM concentrate comprising: from about 60 to about 95 parts (and at least 50 wt %) of a diluent oil (e.g., having a KV100 of about 2 cSt to about 40 cSt); and from about 5 parts to about 40 parts (and at least 6.0 wt %) of a linear triblock copolymer characterized by the formula: D′-PA-D″; wherein D′ represents a block derived from diene, PA represents a block derived from monoalkenyl arene, D″ represents a block derived from diene, and the linear triblock copolymer is present in an amount effective to modify a lubricating kinematic viscosity at approximately 100° C. (KV100) of the concentrate, and wherein the KV100 of the concentrate is about 3000 cSt or less. The linear triblock copolymer may additionally or alternatively have a thickening efficiency span of at most 0.5.