OFF-ROAD TIRE TREAD

• US 20140221526A1
• Filed: 09/11/2012
• Published: 08/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin SCA, Michelin Recherche et Technique SA (Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin SCA)
• Original Assignee: Compagnie Generale Des Etablissements Michelin, Michelin Recherche et Technique SA (Compagnie Generale DES Etablissements Michelin SCA)
• Inventors: Joseph, Aurelie
• Application Number:
  US14/343,313
• Publication Number:
  US 20140221526A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 523/156
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 1/0016 Compositions of the tread
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 7/00 Compositions of natural rubber
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 9/00 Compositions of homopolymers or copolymers of conjugated diene hydrocarbons
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 9/06 Copolymers with styrene

Abstract

The invention relates to an off-road tire tread comprising a composition based on at least one filler, a crosslinking system, from 50 to 80 parts by weight, per hundred parts by weight of elastomer (phr), of at least one isoprene elastomer and from 20 to 50 phr of at least one tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content, the total content of isoprene elastomer and of tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content being within a range varying from 85 to 100 phr.

Claims

1. An off-road tire tread comprising a composition based on at least one filler, a crosslinking system, from 50 to 80 parts by weight, per hundred parts by weight of elastomer (phr), of at least one isoprene elastomer and from 20 to 50 phr of at least one tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content, wherein the total content of isoprene elastomer and of tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content being is within a range varying from 85 to 100 phr.

2. The tread according to claim 1, wherein the tin-functionalized functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content comprises a styrene content within a range extending from 5% to less than 20%.

3. The tread according to claim 2, wherein the tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content comprises a styrene content within a range extending from 10% to 19%.

4. The tread according to claim 1, wherein the total content of isoprene elastomer and of tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content is within a range varying from 90 to 100 phr.

5. The tread according to claim 4, wherein the total content of isoprene elastomer and of tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content is 100 phr.

6. The tread according to claim 1, wherein the content of isoprene elastomer is within a range extending from 50 to 70 phr.

7. The tread according to claim 6, wherein the isoprene elastomer predominantly comprises natural rubber.

8. The tread according to claim 1, wherein the isoprene elastomer predominantly comprises synthetic polyisoprene.

9. The tread according to claim 1, wherein the content of tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content is within a range extending from 30 to 50 phr.

10. The tread according to claim 1, wherein the content of tin-functionalized copolymer of butadiene and styrene having a low styrene content is a tin-functionalized butadiene/styrene copolymer having a low styrene content.

11. The tread according to claim 1, wherein the filler is a reinforcing filler chosen from carbon black, silica and their mixtures.

12. he tread according to claim 11, wherein the content of reinforcing filler is within a range varying from 30 to 90 phr.

13. The tread according to claim 1, further comprising a non-reinforcing filler.

14. The tread according to claim 13, the non-reinforcing filler is chosen from chalk, graphite, glass flakes or silicon-based lamellar fillers, kaolin, talc, mica, montmorillonites, vermiculite, non-bonded silica and mixtures thereof.

15. The tread according to claim 14, in wherein the non-reinforcing filler is non-bonded silica.

16. The tread according to claim 13, wherein the content of non-reinforcing filler is within a range extending from 2 to 35 phr.

17. An off-road tire comprising a tread according to claim 1.

18. The tire according to claim 17, wherein the tire is a civil engineering tire.