Hydrogenated NBR composition

• US 7,847,008 B2
• Filed: 04/14/2008
• Issued: 12/07/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NOK Corporation
• Original Assignee: NOK Corporation
• Inventors: Moritani, Yoichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Yoon; Tae H
• Application Number:
  US12/102,228
• Publication Number:
  US 20090258980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 967 Days
• Field of Search: 524/284, 524/495, 524/566, 525/234
• US Class Current: 524/495
• CPC Class Codes: C08K 5/0025 Crosslinking or vulcanising agents; including accelerators
• CPC Class Codes: C08K 5/14 Peroxides
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 15/005 Hydrogenated nitrile rubber

Abstract

A hydrogenated NBR composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a blend of a hydrogenated NBR having an acrylonitrile content of 25-44% by weight and an iodine number of 32-65, with such an amount of an NBR as to make the iodine number of the blend of 40-160, 2-23 parts by weight of an ester-based plasticizer, and 0.5-10 parts by weight of an organic peroxide, preferably which further contains 0.5-10 parts by weight of a polyfunctional, unsaturated compound, has a distinguished cost performance because of blending an expensive hydrogenated NBR with a cheap NBR, can give cross-linked products having a distinguished oil resistance (resistance to such oil as No. 3 oil and other general-purpose, commercially available engine oil, etc.) and a distinguished fuel oil resistance (resistance to such fuel oil as fuel oil C, and other general-purpose, commercially available gasoline, etc.) and thus can serve as suitable molding materials for intake manifold gaskets of automobile engine or automobile sealing parts, particularly sealing parts around engines and transmission systems.

Claims

1. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition, which comprises 100 parts by weight of a blend of a hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber having an acrylonitrile content of 25-44% by weight and an iodine number of 32-65, with such an amount of an acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber as to make the iodine number of the blend of 40-160, 2-23 parts by weight of an ester-based plasticizer, and 0.5-10 parts by weight of an organic peroxide.

2. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 1, wherein the blend comprises 95-55% by weight of hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber and 5-45% by weight of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber.

3. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 2, wherein the blend comprises 85-65% by weight of hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber and 15-35% by weight of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber.

4. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 3, wherein the blend comprises 85-75% by weight of hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber and 15-25% by weight of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber.

5. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 1, wherein the blend comprises a hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber having an iodine number of 32-65 with such an amount of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber as to make the iodine number of the blend of 50-140.

6. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 5, wherein the blend comprises a hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber having an iodine number of 32-65 with such an amount of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber to make the iodine number of the blend of 70-110.

7. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 1, wherein 20-150 parts by weight of carbon black, white carbon or both thereof is further contained.

8. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 7, wherein a silane coupling agent is further contained together with the white carbon.

9. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 1, for use as molding materials for intake manifold gaskets of engines.

10. An intake manifold gasket obtained by cross-linking molding of a hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 9.

11. A hydrogenated acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber composition according to claim 1, further comprising 0.5-10 parts by weight of polyfunctional unsaturated compound.