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Rubber composition, production method therefor and tire

a technology of composition and rubber, which is applied in the direction of tyre parts, special tyres, transportation and packaging, etc., can solve the problems of less likely to be uniformly dispersed and coagulation of silica particles, and achieve the effect of suppressing the increase in increasing and controlling the dispersibility of silica

Active Publication Date: 2015-01-06
ENEOS MATERIALS CORP
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[0028]In a rubber composition of the present invention, a conjugated diene polymer (A) having a group with bonding reactivity to silica only at one site of one molecule of the polymer and a polymer (B) having groups with bonding reactivity to silica at a plurality of sites of one molecule of the polymer are contained together with silica constituting a filler (C). From the relationship between both these conjugated diene polymer (A) and polymer (B), the conjugated diene polymer (A) acts so as to increase dispersibility of the silica, and on the other hand, the polymer (B) acts so as to suppress dispersibility of the silica from being excessively increased. Accordingly, dispersibility of the silica can be controlled by the mixing ratio thereof, so that from the viewpoint of a balance between rolling resistance and impact resilience in a rubber elastic body obtained from the rubber composition, dispersibility of the silica can be improved.
[0029]According to the rubber composition according to the present invention, therefore, the rubber elastic body having small rolling resistance and excellent impact resilience can be obtained.
[0030]According to a method for producing a rubber composition of the present invention, a rubber composition containing a conjugated diene polymer (A) having a group with bonding reactivity to silica only at one site of one molecule of the polymer and a polymer (B) having groups with bonding reactivity to silica at a plurality of sites of one molecule of the polymer is kneaded with silica constituting a filler (C), so that from the relationship between both these conjugated diene polymer (A) and polymer (B), the conjugated diene polymer (A) acts so as to increase dispersibility of the silica, and on the other hand, the polymer (B) acts so as to suppress dispersibility of the silica from being excessively increased. Accordingly, dispersibility of the silica can be controlled by the mixing ratio thereof.
[0031]Further, in the method for producing a rubber composition of the present invention, dispersibility of the silica from the viewpoint of a balance between rolling resistance and impact resilience in the rubber elastic body obtained from the rubber composition can be more improved by kneading the conjugated diene polymer (A) and the filler (C), and thereafter, kneading the resulting kneaded material and the polymer (B). Accordingly, the resulting rubber elastic body becomes to have smaller rolling resistance and more excellent impact resilience.
[0032]A tire of the present invention has small rolling resistance, and excellent impact resilience is obtained, since a tread is composed of the rubber composition of the present invention.

Problems solved by technology

Then, in the rubber composition in which silica is blended as the filler, the silica particles are liable to coagulate with each other and less likely to be uniformly dispersed.

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synthesis example 1

of Conjugated Diene Polymer; Synthesis of Conjugated Diene Polymer (A)

[0140]Firstly, in an autoclave reactor having an internal volume of 5 liters in which the atmosphere was replaced with nitrogen, 2,750 g of cyclohexane as a solvent, 50 g of tetrahydrofuran as an adjuster for adjusting the vinyl bond content, and 125 g of styrene and 375 g of 1,3-butadiene as monomers were charged. After adjusting the temperature in the reactor to 10° C., a cyclohexane solution containing 5.8 mmol of n-butyllithium as a polymerization initiator was added thereto to initiate polymerization. The polymerization was conducted under adiabatic conditions, and the maximum temperature reached 85° C.

[0141]After confirmation that the polymerization conversion reached 99%, the polymerization was further conducted for 5 minutes from the time when the polymerization conversion reached 99%. Thereafter, 10 g was sampled from a reaction solution obtained, namely a polymer solution containing a copolymer (base pol...

synthesis example 2

of Conjugated Diene Polymer; Synthesis of Conjugated Diene Polymer (A)

[0144]A conjugated diene polymer (hereinafter also referred to as “conjugated diene polymer (A2)”) having a hydrocarbyloxysilyl group and a tertiary amino group as specific functional groups at one molecular end was obtained by the same technique as in Synthesis Example 1 of conjugated diene polymer with the exception that 4.96 mmol of 1-[3-(triethoxysilyl)-propyl]-4-methylpiperazine was used as a compound for functional group introduction in place of 4.96 mmol of N,N-bis-(trimethylsilyl)aminopropylmethyldiethoxysilane.

[0145]For the resulting conjugated diene polymer (A2), the bonded styrene content, vinyl bond content, glass transition temperature and Mooney viscosity were measured. The results thereof are shown in Table 2, together with the weight average molecular weight of the polymer before the specific functional group introduction, namely the weight average molecular weight of the base polymer.

synthesis example 3

of Conjugated Diene Polymer; Synthesis of Conjugated Diene Polymer (A)

[0146]A conjugated diene polymer (hereinafter also referred to as “conjugated diene polymer (A3)”) having a hydrocarbyloxysilyl group and a secondary amino group as specific functional groups at one molecular end was obtained by the same technique as in Synthesis Example 1 of Conjugated diene polymer with the exception that 4.96 mmol of 3-(4-trimethylsilyl-1-piperazino)propyltriethoxysilane was used as a compound for functional group introduction in place of 4.96 mmol of N,N-bis-(trimethylsilyl)aminopropylmethyldiethoxysilane.

[0147]For the resulting conjugated diene polymer (A3), the bonded styrene content, vinyl bond content, glass transition temperature and Mooney viscosity were measured. The results thereof are shown in Table 2, together with the weight average molecular weight of the polymer before the specific functional group introduction, namely the weight average molecular weight of the base polymer.

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Abstract

Objects of the present invention are to provide a rubber composition that can obtain a rubber elastic body having small rolling resistance and excellent impact resilience and a method for producing the same, and to provide a tire having small rolling resistance and excellent impact resilience. The rubber composition of the present invention is obtained by kneading a conjugated diene polymer (A) having a group with bonding reactivity to silica only at one site of one molecule of the polymer, a polymer (B) having groups with bonding reactivity to silica at a plurality of sites of one molecule of the polymer, and a filler (C) containing silica.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application is a 35 U.S.C. §371 national stage patent application of International patent application PCT / JP2012 / 053507, filed on Feb. 15, 2012, published as WO / 2012 / 111697 on Aug. 23, 2012, the text of which is incorporated by reference, and claims the benefit of the filing date of Japanese application no. 2011-032112, filed on Feb. 17, 2011, the text of which is also incorporated by reference.TECHNICAL FIELD[0002]The present invention relates to a rubber composition, a method for producing the same, and a tire, and more particularly, for example, to a rubber composition suitable for tire tread use, a method for producing the same, and a tire obtained from the rubber composition.BACKGROUND ART[0003]As a rubber composition used for tire treads of automobiles, there has conventionally been known one in which carbon black is blended as a reinforcing agent together with a rubber component composed of a conjugated diene rubber.[00...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(United States)
IPC IPC(8): C08F8/00C08L15/00C08L9/06B60C1/00C08C19/44
CPCC08L9/06B60C1/0016C08C19/44C08L15/00C08L2205/02
Inventor YUASA, TAKESHIOKADA, KOJI
Owner ENEOS MATERIALS CORP