Abstract: A flat tire sealant storage container is provided for a flat tire repair device in a formed in a simple configuration which enables the container to be stably secured. The flat tire sealant storage container includes an air inflow pipe for injecting compressed air under pressure into the container filled with a flat tire sealant and a sealant outlet discharge pipe for discharging the flat tire sealant under pressure to the outside of the container. The flat tire sealant storage container further includes an attachable and detachable fixing device formed on the outer surface of the container. When the container is secured to an external object by the fixing device, the inlet of the sealant outlet discharge pipe is positioned at the inner lower part of the container.

Abstract: The offset amount that a sacrificial rib road contact surface is recessed to the inner side of a tire with regards to a shoulder rib road contact surface is equal to 0, and a circumferential fine groove is provided such that the opening side thereof is located on the inner side when the tire is filled to a proper internal pressure. The dimension Ws in the tire width direction of the shoulder rib road contact surface and the dimension Wa in the tire width direction of the sacrificial rib road contact surface are set such that 0.10?Wa/Ws?0.2. The dimension Wb in the tire width direction of the sacrificial rib road contact surface when the groove depth of the circumferential main grooves has worn 20% is set in a range such that 0.25?Wb/Ws?0.30.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a hose which has a gas barrier layer and a rubber layer adhered without using an adhesive, and which has a dramatically improved durability compared to the conventional hose. The hose of the present invention is a refrigerant hose having an inner layer comprising a gas barrier layer and a rubber layer adhered to the outer surface of the gas barrier layer. The gas barrier layer comprises a modified polyamide prepared by blending a polyamide and a carboxyl group-containing modified polyolefin, and the rubber layer comprises a rubber composition prepared by blending a particular amount of an alkylphenol formaldehyde resin and a particular amount of carbon black with a raw rubber. The raw rubber comprises a BIMS, a copolymer rubber which is a butyl rubber and/or a halogenated butyl rubber, and an EPDM, the carbon black is specified, and no adhesive layer is formed between the gas barrier layer and the rubber layer.

Abstract: A rubber composition for a tire tread comprising (A) 100 parts by weight of a rubber component containing (a) 50 to 95 parts by weight of a diene-based rubber containing 50 to 100% by weight of an aromatic vinyl-conjugated diene copolymer rubber and (b) 5 to 50 parts by weight of a conjugated diene-based rubber gel having a toluene swelling index Qi of 16 to 70 and (B) 3 to 40 parts by weight, based upon 100 parts by weight of the total rubber component, of a copolymer resin of an aromatic vinyl and dipentene and/or pinene having a softening point of 100 to 150° C. and a high performance tire using the above rubber composition are disclosed.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a tread portion including land portions formed by vertical grooves provided in a tire circumferential direction and lateral grooves provided so as to intersect with the vertical grooves, the lateral grooves being disposed in the tire circumferential direction having a plurality of pitches P1, P2, and P3, wherein in a shoulder region of the tread portion, as a pitch decreases a volume ratio of the lateral grooves with respect to a pitch volume thereof increases; and, in a center region of the tread portion, as a pitch decreases the volume ratio of the lateral grooves with respect to a pitch volume thereof decreases.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion; three or more circumferential direction grooves; width direction grooves; and lines of land portions. When a tread center area and tread shoulder areas are sectioned at centerlines of the circumferential direction grooves in outermost sides in the tire width direction, a ratio G=(A+B)/X of a sum A+B of a groove area A of the circumferential direction grooves and a groove area B of the width direction grooves to a contact area X of the tread portion is in a range of G?0.25, a ratio S=B/(A+B) of the groove area B to the sum A+B is in a range of 0.25<S<0.45, a ratio Gs=C/Y of a groove area C of the tread shoulder areas to a contact area Y of the tread shoulder areas is in a range of Gs<0.20, and the ratio G and the ratio Gs have a relation of Gs<G.

Abstract: A compounding agent for rubber vulcanization containing an amino alcohol salt of a carboxylic acid group-containing disulfide, obtained by a reaction of a dithiocarboxylic acid and an amino alcohol, having the formula (i):

Abstract: Provided are a bisected mold for tire molding that enables manufacturing of high-performance tires and that at a mold clamping, avoids a tire from being pinched to thereby attain a yield enhancement; and a process for manufacturing a tire. Inside a container bisected into upper and lower parts in the state of mold opening, there are disposed a mold for tire molding and, along upper and lower side plates, an unvulcanized tire. After performing vulcanization molding of the unvulcanized tire while changing from this state to a state of mold clamping of sectors and segments split into a plurality of pieces in a circumferential direction of the unvulcanized tire through a driving device and a slide unit means, only the sectors are subjected to mold opening by use of a driving means while maintaining the state of mold clamping of the mold for tire molding and the segments by the driving device and the slide unit means, and subsequently taking the vulcanization-molded tire.

Abstract: A method for producing a laminate (E) of a low air permeable resin/rubber composition comprising: laminating a laminate (D) of a low air permeable resin (A) layer having an air permeation coefficient of 1.0×10?12 cc·cm/cm2·sec·cmHg or less and an average thickness d (?m) of 0.05<d<5 and a thermoplastic resin composition (B) layer with a rubber composition (E) layer so as to form (B)/(A)/(E), followed by vulcanization, and peeling off only the thermoplastic resin composition (B) from the laminate, as well as the laminate thereof.

Abstract: Provided is a pneumatic tire which employs pitch variation for suppressing pattern noise and has uniformity further improved. Pitches 3a, 3b and 3c with different pitch lengths are formed so that a pitch with a larger pitch length is set to have a smaller groove area ratio, and to have a larger groove wall angle ? on the obtuse angle side that is formed by a groove wall of a lateral groove 2 and the direction tangential to the thread surface.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire simultaneously achieving both enhanced on-ice performance and enhanced durability. A pneumatic tire, wherein sipes (6) extending in the width direction of the tire are arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction of the tire at least in shoulder blocks (5a) divided by longitudinal grooves (2) extending in the circumferential direction of the tire and by lateral grooves (3) extending in the width direction of the tire. Open sipes (6a) and closed sipes (6b) are alternately arranged, and the depth of the open sipes (6a) is less than the depth of the closed sipes (6b).

Abstract: To provide adhesive compositions for optical fibers which are curable with moisture and excellent in adhesiveness and resistance to moist heat. An Adhesive composition for optical fibers containing (A) a component having a reactive silicon containing group which contains (e) a compound obtained by reacting (a) an epoxy compound having at least one epoxy group with (b) a silane coupling agent having both a reactive silicon containing group and an epoxy-reactive group, wherein the component (A) has a molecular weight of 1000 or below per reactive silicon containing group; and an adhesive composition for optical fibers containing an alkylsilyl ester and (B) a compound other than the alkylsilyl ester which has at least one reactive silicon containing group.

Abstract: There is provided a vehicle drive control system performing the stability control of a vehicle by highly accurately and easily sensing accelerations generated in each tire and sensing a tire ground contact pattern, a sensor unit thereof and a tire. Using a sensor unit 100 mounted in each tire 2 of a vehicle 1, accelerations generated in X, Y and Z directions are sensed and at the same time, a low frequency noise component and high frequency noise component added to the Z axis direction acceleration signal are extracted. Digital values being the sensing result are transmitted as digital information to a monitor device 200 by radio wave. The monitor device 200 compares many pieces of tire ground contact pattern information preliminarily stored with the digital information to thereby specify a tire ground contact pattern and output the information to a stability control unit 700.

Abstract: A rubber composition for use in tires including from 60 to 120 parts by weight of a silica having a CTAB specific surface area of from 70 to 175 m2/g and from 3 to 25 parts by weight of an aromatic modified terpene resin excluding terpene phenol resins per 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber including from 30 to 80 weight % of a terminal-modified styrene-butadiene rubber and from 10 to 50 weight % of a butadiene rubber. An average glass transition temperature of the diene rubber is ?55° C. or lower and an average glass transition temperature of a component formed from the diene rubber, the aromatic modified terpene resin, and an optional plasticizer is ?45° C. or lower.

Abstract: Protruding ridges on a surface of a side wall portion extending in a tire radial direction for a predetermined range in the tire radial direction and being provided in a plurality in a row arrangement in a tire circumferential direction, wherein the ridges are formed continuously in the predetermined range from a first edge in the tire radial direction to a second edge; and characters are formed by the ridges including reference parts provided on a reference line that connects the first edge in the tire radial direction to the second edge, and curved parts that depart from and return to the reference line by bending or curving.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire having a designated rotational direction is disclosed, wherein an entire area having a width 85% of a total tire width and a center area having a width 30% of the total tire width are defined in a tread portion. A center main groove is positioned on a tire equatorial line and extends in a tire circumferential direction. Subsidiary main grooves are positioned on two sides of the center main groove and extend in the tire circumferential direction. Angled and lateral grooves extend at an angle, in a direction opposite the rotational direction towards an outside in the tire width direction. Lateral grooves extend from each subsidiary main groove. Sub grooves extend from the lateral grooves towards the rotational direction. A total length of a block edge in the center area is from 40% to 60% of a total length of a block edge in the entire area.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a conductive polymer dispersion which has an excellent conductivity and is capable of providing a material with high transparency; and a process for producing the same. The process for producing a conductive polymer dispersion comprises a stirring step in which a mixed liquid containing a conductive polymer having a weight-average molecular weight of from 20,000 to 1,000,000 and a solvent is stirred at a shearing rate of 10,000 s?1 or higher using a stirring machine thereby obtaining a conductive polymer dispersion in which the conductive polymer is dispersed in the solvent.

Abstract: A modified butyl rubber composition containing a modified butyl rubber obtained by a modification reaction of a compound (a) having a nitroxide-free radical, stable in the presence of oxygen at an ordinary temperature, in the molecule thereof and a radical initiator (b) and at least two kinds of bi- or more-functional radical polymerizable monomers (c).