Production method for unvulcanized rubber member and tire

• US 20050034802A1
• Filed: 10/24/2002
• Published: 02/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Original Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
• Inventors: Wada, Ichiro, Yamada, Tsuguyoshi, Shirasaka, Jingo
• Application Number:
  US10/495,336
• Publication Number:
  US 20050034802A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 152/564
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/00 Extrusion moulding, i.e. expressing the moulding material through a die or nozzle which imparts the desired form; Apparatus therefor extrusion blow-moulding B29C49/04
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/0014 producing flat articles having components brought in contact outside the extrusion die
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/07 Flat, e.g. panels
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/08 flexible, e.g. films
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/19 the layers being joined at their edges
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 48/21 the layers being joined at their surfaces
• CPC Class Codes: B29D 30/3028 by feeding a continuous band and winding it helically, i.e. the band is fed while being advanced along the drum axis, to form an annular element winding and joining, helically in general B29C53/58
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2030/008 Innerliners
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/14 Monitoring arrangements for SDH/SONET rings H04J3/085
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 3/1617 carrying packets or ATM cells

Abstract

A method of producing an uncured rubber member by separately producing a rubber composition A of a compounding system excluding a vulcanizing agent and a rubber composition B of a compounding system excluding a vulcanization accelerator and shaping the rubber compositions A and B into given forms through a shaping machine and winding on a rotating support does not cause the scorching at the shaping step and is high in the shaping efficiency. Also, the durability and the internal pressure holding property at a run-flat state are simultaneously established in a tire provided with an innerliner in which a rubber component for the innerliner contains at least 10% by mass of diene rubber in a region corresponding to a tire side portion and a ratio of diene rubber in a region corresponding to a tire tread portion is made lower than that in a side portion corresponding region.

Claims

1. A method of producing an uncured rubber member, characterized in that a rubber composition A of a compounding system excluding a vulcanizing agent and a rubber composition B of a compounding system excluding a vulcanization accelerator are produced separately, and the rubber composition A and the rubber composition B are shaped into given forms through a shaping machine, respectively, and wound on a rotating support.

2. A method of producing an uncured rubber member according to claim 1, wherein the shaping machine is an extruder.

3. A method of producing an uncured rubber member according to claim 1, wherein the form of the rubber composition A and/or B after the shaping is any one of sheet, ribbon and string.

4. A method of producing an uncured rubber member according to claim 1, wherein the rubber composition A and/or B after the shaping is wound in a helical form.

5. A method of producing an uncured rubber member according to claim 1, wherein the rubber composition A and/or B after the shaping is cooled before the winding on the rotating support.

6. A method of producing an uncured rubber member according to claim 1, wherein an existing ratio of the rubber composition A and the rubber composition B in the uncured rubber member is properly changed.

7. A method of producing an uncured rubber member according to claim 1, wherein an existing ratio of the rubber composition A and the rubber composition B in the uncured rubber member is properly changed in a widthwise direction of the support.

8. An apparatus for producing an uncured rubber member, comprising a rotating support and plural extruders connecting to the support.

9. An apparatus for producing an uncured rubber member according to claim 8, wherein a cooling device is arranged between the extruder and the support.

10. A tire provided with an innerliner, characterized in that a rubber component for the innerliner contains at least 10% by mass of diene rubber in a region corresponding to a tire side portion and a ratio of diene rubber in a region corresponding to a tire tread portion is made lower than that in a side portion corresponding region.

11. A tire according to claim 10, wherein the rubber component for the inner-liner contains 10-40% by mass of diene rubber in the region corresponding to the side portion.

12. A tire according to claim 10, wherein the rubber component for the innerliner is composed mainly of halogenated butyl rubber and contains 90-60% by mass of halogenated butyl rubber and 10-40% by mass of diene rubber.

13. A tire according to claim 10, wherein the diene rubber is a natural rubber.

14. A tire according to claim 10, wherein a reinforcing rubber of substantially a crescent-shaped form in section is arranged an innerliner and a carcass ply in the tire side portion.

15. A tire according to claim 10, wherein a ratio of diene rubber in the rubber component for the innerliner is continuously changed from the side portion corresponding region to the tread portion corresponding region.

16. A method of producing a tire provided with an innerliner by separately taking out rubber compositions from plural storage tanks containing different rubber compositions and kneading and extruding through an extruder and winding the resulting extrudate on a rotating support to form an innerliner layer, characterized in that take-out amounts of the rubber compositions are changed so that a rubber component for the innerliner contains at least 10% by mass of diene rubber in a region corresponding to a tire side portion and a ratio of diene rubber in a region corresponding to a tire tread portion is made lower than that in a side portion corresponding region.

17. A method of producing a tire according to claim 16, wherein the take-out amount is continuously changed.

18. A method of producing a tire according to claim 16, wherein the rotating support is a rigid core having an outer surface form substantially corresponding to an inner surface form of a product tire.