Abstract: Apparatus for applying noise-reducing elements to a tyre for vehicle wheels that has a radially inner surface with a service area and a circumferential dimension. The apparatus determines the position in circumferential direction of the service area, determines the position in circumferential direction of a target area on the radially inner surface of the tyre based on the position in circumferential direction of the service area, and applies a noise-reducing element the target area. The position in circumferential direction of the service area is determined by circumferentially inspecting the radially inner surface of the tyre starting from a reference position, detecting the angular position of the service area with respect to the reference position and determining the position in circumferential direction of the service area based on the angular position and on the circumferential dimension of the radially inner surface of the tyre.

Abstract: A coated wire includes a steel alloy coated with a coating comprising one or more amino alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane compounds selected from the group consisting of an amino alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane, an amino/mercaptan co-alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane, an amino/blocked mercaptan co-alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane, or a salt of one or more thereof. A rubber composition and a process for coating wire is also disclosed.

Abstract: A tire includes four zigzag circumferential grooves and hexagonal blocks divided by the lateral grooves each extending so as to connect between adjacent ones of the zigzag circumferential grooves. The zigzag circumferential grooves include a pair of center circumferential grooves each having a groove width not more than 4.0 mm and a pair of shoulder circumferential grooves each having a groove width larger than that of each of the center circumferential grooves. A depth of each of the lateral grooves is smaller than a depth of each of the zigzag circumferential grooves, and a groove bottom of each of the lateral grooves is provided with a first sipe.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rubber composition containing 100 parts by mass of a solid rubber (A), 0.1 to 50 parts by mass of a modified liquid diene rubber (B) having a functional group derived from a silane compound represented by the formula (1), and 20 to 200 parts by mass of a filler (C), the modified liquid diene rubber (B) satisfying (i) to (iii): (i) a weight average molecular weight (Mw) is not less than 1,000 and less than 15,000; (ii) a vinyl content is not more than 70 mol %; and (iii) an average number of functional groups per molecule of the modified liquid diene rubber (B) is 1 to 20.

Abstract: A tire includes a pair of sidewalls and a circumferential tread having a zigzag circumferential groove. The zigzag circumferential groove is defined by a groove bottom, a pair of groove walls, and a pair of groove edges defining an intersection between each groove wall and a top surface of the circumferential tread, wherein each of the groove edges smoothly widens and narrows along the groove. The circumferential tread has a first circumferential pitch with first and second circumferential pitch lengths. The first circumferential pitch includes a first zigzag circumferential groove segment and a second zigzag circumferential groove segment that form a first intersection angle. The second circumferential pitch includes a third zigzag circumferential groove segment and a fourth zigzag circumferential groove segment that form a second intersection angle different from the first intersection angle.

Abstract: A computerized tire heating system is provided for. The system features a carcass with a tread, a sidewall and a bead, an inner tube having an inner volume, a first layer of thermal insulation, connected to said bead, a second later of thermal insulation, connected to said tread, a power source, and a heating system having more than one heating coil located in between the first layer of thermal insulation and the second layer of thermal insulation, where the heating system is connected to said power source. The computerized tire heating system may also have a heating gel located in the inner volume of the inner tube.

Abstract: The tread comprises a plurality of blocks, each block being delimited by transverse or oblique grooves and circumferential grooves. Each block is provided with a sipe which has three branches. The branches have common ends. A first branch is oriented in a transverse or oblique direction. A second branch and a third branch each open when new into a transverse groove delimiting the block. The angle formed between the first and second branches is 100 to 125 degrees, and the angle formed between the first and the third branches is 100 to 125 degrees. After wear, each sipe represents between 45% and 70% of the total wearable thickness, such that the lengths of the three branches measured on the new tread surface, L1?, L2?, L3? respectively, are shorter than the lengths L1, L2, L3 respectively measured on the tread surface when new.

Abstract: An adhered composite includes (i) a polar thermoset substrate; (ii) optionally a primer layer disposed on the polar thermoset substrate; (iii) a first adhesive layer adhesively mated to the polar thermoset substrate, optionally with the primer layer disposed between the first adhesive layer and the polar thermoset substrate; (iv) a first layer of cured non-polar rubber adhesively mated to the first adhesive layer; (v) a second adhesive layer adhesively mated to the first layer of cured non-polar rubber; and (vi) a second layer of cured non-polar rubber forming an outer surface of the composite.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: A rocuronium bromide injection solution-prefilled syringe of the present invention includes a syringe comprising an outer cylinder made of synthetic resin, a gasket which is accommodated inside the outer cylinder and liquid-tightly slidable inside the outer cylinder, and a seal member for sealing a distal end opening of the outer cylinder; and a rocuronium bromide injection solution filled inside the syringe. The gasket is formed by vulcanized chlorinated butyl rubber added calcined clay, and said calcined clay is only added as an inorganic filler classified as an inorganic reinforcing agent and an inorganic filling agent.

Abstract: A method for producing a tire member that makes it possible to yield a vulcanized rubber high in antiaging property includes: (i) mixing carbon black, a dispersing solvent and a rubber latex solution with each other to produce a rubber latex solution including the carbon black, (ii) solidifying the rubber latex solution including the carbon black to produce a rubber solidified product including the carbon black; (iii) adding, to the rubber solidified product including the carbon black, a compound represented by the following formula (I): and dispersing the compound represented by the formula (I) into the water-containing rubber solidified product including the carbon black while dehydrating the rubber solidified product including the carbon black to produce a wet rubber masterbatch; and (iv) adding, to the resultant wet rubber masterbatch, the compound represented by the formula (I) and an antiaging agent further, and dry-mixing these substances with each other.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire has a sipe formed in a land portion of a tread surface. The sipe has a 2D center portion, a 3D center portion and 3D side portion. The 2D center portion is positioned in a sipe bottom side at a center in a length direction. The 3D center portion is positioned in a top surface side at the center in the length direction. The 3D side portion is positioned in one end or both ends in the length direction. The 3D center portion and the 3D side portion are open at the top surface. A three-dimensional shape of the 3D center portion has a structure in which wall surfaces are engageable with each other in the length direction. A three-dimensional shape of the 3D side portion has a structure in which wall surfaces are engageable with each other in the depth direction.

Abstract: A urethane adhesive composition of the present technology contains: a urethane prepolymer having isocyanate groups; and a monosulfide compound which has a monosulfide bond and a hydrolyzable silyl group and in which the monosulfide bond and a silicon atom in the hydrolyzable silyl group are bonded to each other.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a recess formed on a groove wall surface of a circumferential groove opposite to a widthwise groove. A wall surface defined by the recess includes an inclined surface inclined towards the widthwise groove from a tire radial direction outer side towards a tire radial direction inner side and a curved surface connecting a tire radial direction inner end of the inclined surface to a bottom defined by the recess, the curved surface having a center of curvature on the side of the widthwise groove. As a connection point between the inclined surface and the curved surface is at a position in the tire circumferential direction at which a width W of the recess in the tire width direction is smaller, the connection point is located further inward in the tire radial direction.

Abstract: An intelligent tire system may include a bearing assembly enclosing a wheel rim and a sensor module installed to be relatively rotated with respect to the wheel rim by the bearing assembly and continuously sensing an inner surface of a tire contacting a road.

Abstract: A tread band having at least one longitudinal groove bounded by a bottom wall, and by two sidewalls; each sidewall of the longitudinal groove has a continuous sequence of alternating projections and recesses, which extend crosswise so that, in plan view, the first longitudinal groove is zigzag shaped; each projection of one sidewall of the longitudinal groove always faces a recess in the other sidewall of the longitudinal groove; and, at all the projections, an outer portion of each sidewall slopes at a first obtuse angle to the bottom wall, and, at all the recesses, an outer portion of each sidewall slopes at a second obtuse angle, different from the first obtuse angle, to the bottom wall.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion with a land ratio of from 75% to 80%, the tread portion provided with crown main grooves having groove widths of 2.0-8.0 mm and groove depths of 15.0-20.0 mm, shoulder main grooves having groove widths of from 8.0-14.0 mm and groove depths of from 15.0-20.0 mm and lateral narrow grooves with groove widths of 0.6-2.0 mm and groove depths of 15.0-20.0 mm, wherein each main groove has a cross section including a groove bottom and groove walls, each groove wall includes an inner part and an outer part, the inner part has an inclination of not more than 1 degree with respect to a groove centerline, and the outer part has an inclination larger than that of the inner part.

Abstract: This invention relates to a rubber composition comprised of diene-based elastomer, precipitated silica and nano-scale exfoliated graphene platelets. A tire is provided having a component comprised of such rubber composition.

Abstract: Particular embodiments of the invention include methods and apparatus for molding and/or curing an article. Particular embodiments of such methods include positioning a mold core centrally within mold outer portion to form an annular mold cavity between the mold outer portion and the mold core, the core including an outer ring having an outer surface for engaging the annular article, the outer ring being formed of a material capable of expanding and contracting with changes in temperature. Such methods also include heating the mold outer ring, cooling the core outer ring subsequent to the step of heating, whereby the core outer ring contracts relative to the article, and removing the article from the core outer ring.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a compression molded green rubber component, and methods for manufacturing the same, are disclosed.

Abstract: A member for attachment to tire includes a functional object in suspension in a soft substance of very high deformability.

Abstract: A composition includes a polymer matrix, a multiple-acid-derived metal soap, wherein the metal has an oxidation state of +3 or +4. An associated method for making a rubber composition includes the steps of: combining a solvent and a multiple carboxylic, phosphonic, phosphoric, sulfuric, or sulfonic acid, or mixtures thereof, and mixing to form solution A; adding a source of metal ions to solution A and mixing to form a product A, the metal being selected from the metals having an oxidation state of +3 or +4, whereby product A includes a multiple-acid-derived metal soap; and combining the multiple-acid-derived metal soap with a diene rubber.

Abstract: A steel filament adapted for the reinforcement of elastomer or for thermoplastic products has a carbon content ranging up to 0.20 per cent by weight. The steel filament is provided with a coating promoting the adhesion with elastomer or thermoplastic products. The steel filament is drawn until a final diameter of less than 0.60 mm and a final tensile strength of more than 1200 MPa. Intermediate heat treatments are avoided so that the carbon footprint of the steel filament is substantially reduced.

Abstract: The present invention provides a rubber composition for a tread which enables improvement in fuel economy, breaking performance, and abrasion resistance in a balanced manner; a method for producing the rubber composition; and a heavy-load tire. The present invention relates to a rubber composition for a tread of a heavy-load tire, including a modified natural rubber having a phosphorus content of 200 ppm or less, and carbon black.

Abstract: This invention pertains to a tire having a plurality of vibration absorbers wherein, (i) the vibration absorbers have at least one spring element and at least one absorber mass element, each element having a first and second surface such that the first surface of the spring element is attached to the tire carcass or attached to or embedded into the tire inner liner, and (ii) the first surface of the absorber mass element is attached to the second surface of the spring element, or the absorber mass element is embedded into the spring element.

Abstract: Tire vulcanizing/retreading and de-vulcanization system including an autoclave and heating based on an induction system, which will lead to vulcanization or de-vulcanization of a tire.

Abstract: A tire with rotational visual display comprising a tire, where the tire includes an outer face, an inner edge and an outer edge; a first image on the outer face, where the first image is seen when the tire is in a still position; and a second image on the outer face, where the second image is seen when the tire rotates at a predetermined speed. The first image is arranged with a specific spacing to where when the predetermined speed is attained the second image is then seen. The second image of the tire with rotational visual display displays one of at least a word, phrase, picture, brand name, logo and slogan.

Abstract: The tire condition of each tire of a vehicle is detected, which information is transmitted by means of electromagnetic waves from the tire condition acquisition devices to a monitoring device that receives the electromagnetic waves transmitted from tire condition acquisition devices via a receiving antenna, which monitoring device contains means for displaying the electric field intensity of the electromagnetic waves transmitted from the tire condition acquisition devices. Thus, the electric field intensity at a mounting position can easily be determined when mounting the receiving antenna, enabling easy discovery of the optimal location for mounting the receiving antenna.

Abstract: A thermoset cross-linked elastomer material, such as scrap tire rubber, is devulcanized by subjecting the material to a mechanical mixing process in the presence of 0.5 to 2% by wt. of an organic catalyst having a thiol terminus.

Abstract: A latex marking ink suitable for marking rubber articles has been developed. The ink comprises vulcanizable rubber latex, pigment, vulcanizing agent, and non-ionic stabilizer dispersed in water. Shear stability is dramatically and unexpectedly increased by the presence of the non-ionic stabilizer even though viscosity also increases.

Abstract: Pneumatic rubber tire with a component comprised of a silica reinforced rubber composition comprised of specialized polybutadiene rubber, functionalized styrene/butadiene elastomer and cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber.

Abstract: Annular tire overlay (11) for drawing onto the rolling surface of tires (40), which has a tread (17) on its outside and a gripping surface (15) on its inside, which tire overlay (11) is so designed that contact between the rolling surface of the tire (40) and the surfacing of the road is prevented by the tire overlay (11) when the tire overlay has been drawn onto a tire. The said tire overlay (11) is provided with a flange (21) which stops the tire overlay (11) from shifting in the axial direction of the wheel. Advantageously, the tire overlay is additionally stiffened by a flange (21) of planar form to keep the contact area on the surface below small.

Abstract: This invention relates to a tire having at least one rubber component which contains a cast, extruded, or calendered film of syndiotactic polybutadiene polymer. The syndiotactic polybutadiene polymer film is integral with the surface of the rubber component in a sense of being co-cured therewith. Such film may be added directly to the tire during the building process or involve a separate process of producing a tire component as a composite of the film and a rubber composition (rubber component) prior to the tire building stage. Such composite can be as is or partially pre-cured before being applied in the tire building process. The syndiotactic polybutadiene polymer film is provided to promote both stability and age durability for the tire component.

Abstract: A wheel assembly is disclosed, the wheel assembly including a rigid wheel including a radially outer rim wall presenting a polygonal shape with a plurality of outermost vertices connecting a plurality of planar faces, and a flexible tire mounted on the outer rim wall. The tire is supported by the vertices of the rim wall and is separated from the rim faces by a space, portions of the tire located between the vertices being configured to flex inwardly when subject to ground engaging pressure.

Abstract: Negative Poisson's ratio (NPR) or auxetic are used to make lightweight wheels and runflat tires. The NPR tires can be tailored and functionally-designed to optimally meet the runflat requirements for both military and commercial vehicles. NPR-runflat tires may be fabricated using standard materials and simple manufacturing processes, resulting in low-cost and high-volume production. In preferred embodiments the runflat tire designs are fully compatible with Central Tire Inflation Systems (CTIS), while providing a performance equivalent to current military vehicle solutions but at half the weight. An auxetic wheel according to the invention comprises a line defining an axis of rotation; and a plurality of concentric rings of unit cells surrounding the axis, each unit cell being constructed of a plurality of members defining a Negative Poisson's Ratio (NPR) structure.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rubber-metal composite, the method including a process of bringing a metal material into contact with a buffer solution having a pH of from 5 to 7.2, followed by a process of causing the metal material and rubber to adhere to each other.

Abstract: A process for devulcanizing crosslinked elastomer particles comprising applying an alternating electric field to a composition comprising crosslinked elastomer particles under compression. The alternating electric field preferably has a frequency between 1 and 100 MHz and a voltage between 1000 and 10,000 V, and may be applied between an apparatus that continuously conveys the particles through the field.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pneumatic rubber tire having an integral innerliner of a rubber composition comprised of a combination of cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber and medium to high vinyl styrene/butadiene rubber together with compatible resin.

Abstract: A vehicle tyre is described, which includes a rubber mass and a radiofrequency transponder. The rubber mass has a joining zone in a circumferential direction on an inner face of the tyre. The radiofrequency transponder forms an angle (?) with the joining zone about a main axis of the tyre, with the angle (?) being greater than or equal to 90°.

Abstract: A tire with a rubber containing component compound of a copolymer rubber having pendant hydroxyl groups; and a non-sulfur containing silane.

Abstract: A sensor device adapted to be associated with a vehicle wheel includes a package enclosing at least one sensor and an electronic data processing apparatus and at least one antenna arranged on the package for at least one among the wireless transmission of data generated by the electronic apparatus and the wireless reception of data to be provided to the electronic apparatus. The at least one antenna is shaped to adhere to surfaces of the package.

Abstract: A process for devulcanizing crosslinked elastomer particles comprising applying an alternating radio frequency dielectric field to a composition comprising crosslinked elastomer particles. The alternating radio frequency dielectric field preferably has a frequency between 1 and 100 MHz and a voltage between 1000 and 10,000 V.

Abstract: A method for preparing a functionalized polymer, the method comprising the steps of polymerizing monomer to form a reactive polymer, and reacting the reactive polymer with a protected polyoxime compound.

Abstract: The present invention includes rubber compositions, rubber articles and tires formulated to prevent ozone attack. A particular embodiment of the present invention includes a tire comprising a rubber structure, the rubber structure comprising an essentially unsaturated rubber elastomer, between 0.1 and 0.45 phr (parts by weight per hundred parts by weight of the rubber elastomer) of a particular compound 2,4,6-Tris-(N-1,4-dimethylpentyl-p-phenylenediamino)-1,3,5-triazine and between 0.5 and 2 phr of a phenolic resin.

Abstract: There are provided a method and a device to suppress the formation of a flat spot or to lessen the extent of a flat spot in a tire of a vehicle such as automobile by applying to a belt of the tire on a ground contact area of the tire a bending moment in the direction that the opposite sides of the belt are directed outward in the radial direction of the tire to suppress the formation of a deflection due to the compression of a carcass cord on the tire ground contact area In order to apply such a bending moment, a projection member narrower than the tread of the tire is disposed on the surface touching the tire of a vehicle when it is stopped or parked, pressing the tread of the tire.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire is provided with a decoration portion at a tire side portion. The decoration portion includes decoration elements, which include ridges, and gullies, which are inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction and divide the decoration elements into at least two regions. Thus, the gullies make the ridges non- continuous in the tire circumferential direction. The ridges include first ridges and second ridges that are smaller than the first ridges in one or both of height and width. At least some of the first ridges are inclined with respect to the tire circumferential direction and are adjacent to one another. Thus, the gullies are formed between the adjacent first ridges.

Abstract: Alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane compounds are described. The alkoxy-modified silsesquioxane compounds contain an alkoxysilane group that participates in an alkoxysilane-silica reaction as a silica dispersing agent in rubber, with the release of zero to about 0.1% by weight of the rubber of volatile organic compounds (VOC), especially alcohol, during compounding and further processing. Further described are methods for making alkoxy-modified silsesquioxanes, methods for making vulcanizable rubber compounds containing alkoxy-modified silsesquioxanes, vulcanizable rubber compounds containing alkoxy-modified silsesquioxanes, and pneumatic tires comprising a component that contains alkoxy-modified silsesquioxanes.

Abstract: A heavy vehicle tire tread constituted from a material based upon a rubber composition, the composition comprising, per 100 parts by weight of elastomer, between 35 and 60 phr of a solution polymerized styrene-butadiene rubber having a styrene content of between 10 wt. % and 35 wt. % and between 35 and 60 phr of a polybutadiene. The composition may further include between 45 and 110 phr of silica and between (1.94×10?3/n)(S) and (2.55×10?3/n)(S) moles of a sulfur-containing organosilicon compound as a silane coupling agent per 1 kg of the silica, wherein n is a number of silicon atoms in a molecule of the silane coupling agent and S is a CTAB surface area in m2/g of the silica. The rubber composition may be cured with a sulfur curing system comprising a sulfenamide accelerator and between 0.3 and 0.8 phr of free sulfur, wherein a ratio of the sulfenamide accelerator and the sulfur is between 2 and 7.

Abstract: Tire having a visible surface comprising patterns contrasting with said surface, said pattern comprising, over the entire surface thereof, a plurality of tufts distributed with a density of at least five tufts per mm2 or a plurality of blades which are substantially parallel to one another and arranged with a pitch of less than 0.5 mm, each tuft having a mean cross section having a diameter of between 0.03 mm and 0.5 mm or each blade having a mean width of between 0.03 mm and 0.5 mm, characterized in that the walls of the tufts or of the blades have, over at least one quarter of the area thereof, a mean roughness Rz of between 5 ?m and 30 ?m.

Abstract: Blends of carbon black or other fillers is described. The blends of carbon black or other fillers are preferably pre-blended prior to introducing the blend into a product such as an elastomeric or polymeric product.