Frequency sensitive conductive rubber composition

• US 5,143,967 A
• Filed: 03/27/1991
• Issued: 09/01/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 03/27/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Original Assignee: Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
• Inventors: Sun, Chia-Li, Krishnan, Ram M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Michl, Paul R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): CAIN, EDWARD J
• Application Number:
  US07/675,842
• Time in Patent Office: 524 Days
• Field of Search: 524/495, 524/496
• US Class Current: 524/496
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 1/0008 Compositions of the inner liner
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 23/0408 transmitting the signals by non-mechanical means from the wheel or tyre to a vehicle body mounted receiver
• CPC Class Codes: C08K 3/04 Carbon
• CPC Class Codes: C08L 21/00 Compositions of unspecified rubbers

Abstract

A sulfur cured rubber composition composed of selected natural rubber and carbon black for sensing pressure with reference to applied sinusoidal electrical energy.

Claims

1. A sulfur cured rubber composition characterized by exhibiting a substantially linear, positively sloped, curve of log conductivity (ohm^-1 cm^-1) versus applied pressure to the said rubber composition for an applied sinusoidal electrical energy having a frequency in the range of about 10 Hz to about 500 kHz;

wherein said rubber composition is comprised of (1) 100 parts by weight natural rubber of grade SMR 5CV purity or better, and, homogeneously dispersed therein, (2) about 30 to about 45 parts by weight of at least one carbon black having a surface area characterized by an iodine absorption number in a range of about 220 to about 300 a relatively high structure characterized by a dibutylphathalate value in a range of about 150 to about 210 and a particle size of an average in the range of about 20 to about 50 nanometers.

2. The sulfur cured rubber composition of claim 1 which is primary sensitive to changes in such electrical conductivity with minimal influence to external temperature variations.