Process of production of pneumatic tire

• US 6,136,123 A
• Filed: 12/31/1996
• Issued: 10/24/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1995
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Yokohama Rubber Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Yokohama Rubber Company Limited
• Inventors: Watanabe, Jiro, Yamakawa, Kazuto, Kuroda, Noriaki, Kawaguchi, Gou, Kaido, Hiroyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Knable, Geoffrey L.
• Application Number:
  US08/765,425
• Time in Patent Office: 1,393 Days
• Field of Search: 156/133, 156/123, 156/110.1, 152/510, 152/DIG. 16
• US Class Current: 156/123
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 1/0008 Compositions of the inner liner
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 2005/145 made of laminated layers
• CPC Class Codes: B60C 5/14 with impervious liner or coating on the inner wall of the tyre
• CPC Class Codes: C08G 18/42 Polycondensates having carboxylic or carbonic ester groups in the main chain
• CPC Class Codes: C08G 18/4277 Caprolactone and/or substituted caprolactone
• CPC Class Codes: C08G 18/44 Polycarbonates
• CPC Class Codes: C08J 2321/00 Characterised by the use of unspecified rubbers
• CPC Class Codes: C08J 5/125 Adhesives in organic diluents
• CPC Class Codes: C08J 5/128 Adhesives without diluent
• CPC Class Codes: C09J 107/00 Adhesives based on natural rubber
• CPC Class Codes: C09J 175/04 Polyurethanes

Abstract

A process for producing a pneumatic tire using, as an air permeation preventive layer, a strip-shaped or cylindrical-shaped single-layer or multiple-layer thermoplastic film, comprising:

applying, to at least a part of the joining portion of the thermoplastic film or tire member facing the thermoplastic film, a tackifier-adhesive composition containing a polymer component having an absolute value of the difference of the critical surface tension with the rubber component of the tire member and the polymer component of the surface layer of the thermoplastic film of not more than 6 mN/m, respectively.

Claims

1. In a process for producing a pneumatic tire having an inner tire member containing a rubber component and, as an air permeation preventive layer, a strip-shaped single-layer or multiple layer film, said film extending circumferentially around and having one surface in contact with an inner side of said tire member, said film further having a joining portion where facing portions on two ends of the strip-shaped film meet and overlap to form said layer, the improvement comprising:

said strip-shaped film being composed of an elastomer dispersed in a continuous thermoplastic resin and applying to at least a part of the facing portions of said ends at the joining portion of said strip-shaped film and to at least a part of said one surface of said film a tackifier-adhesive composition containing a polymer component, said polymer component of said tackifier-adhesive composition having a critical surface tension difference with the rubber component of the tire member and with said one surface of the film of not more than 3 mN/m, wherein the tackiness between both the facing portions of said two ends of the strip-shaped film at the joining portion of the film and between said one surface of the film and the rubber component of the tire member is from 5 to 30N as determined from a sample having a width of 12.7 mm.

3. The process of claim 1 or 2, wherein the tackifier-adhesive composition contains an unvulcanized rubber and a cross-linking agent for the unvulcanized rubber.

4. The process of claim 1 or 2, wherein the tackifier-adhesive composition contains a polyol having a polyester structure having a number average molecular weight of at least 3000, an isocyanate based cross-linking agent, and a tackifier.

5. The process of claim 1 or 2, wherein the tackifier-adhesive composition contains an acrylic acid ester copolymer, an organic peroxide based cross-linking agent or isocyanate based cross-linking agent and a tackifier.

6. The process of claim 1 or 2, wherein the tackifier-adhesive composition contains a modified styrene copolymer or a mixture of a styrene copolymer and modified polyolefin, a cross-linking agent, and a tackifier.

7. A tire produced by the process of claim 1 or 2, wherein the single-layer or multiple-layer film has a Young'"'"'s modulus of from 1 to 500 MPa.

8. A tire produced by the process of claim 1 or 2, wherein the single-layer or multiple-layer film has a Young'"'"'s modulus of from 1 to 300 MPa.

9. The process of claim 1, wherein the tackiness between both the facing portions of said two ends of the strip-shaped film at the joining portion of the film and between said one surface of the film and the rubber component of the tire member is from 14.9 to 30N as determined from a sample having a width of 12.7 mm.

2. In a process for producing a pneumatic tire having an inner tire member containing a rubber component and, as an air permeation preventive layer, a cylindrical-shaped single-layer or multiple layer film, said film extending circumferentially around and having one surface in contact with an inner side of said tire member to form said layer, the improvement comprising:

said cylindrical-shaped film being composed of an elastomer dispersed in a continuous thermoplastic resin and applying to at least a part of said one surface of said film a tackifier-adhesive composition containing a polymer component, said polymer component of said tackifier-adhesive composition having a critical surface tension difference with the rubber component of the tire member and with said one surface of the film of not more than 3 mN/m, wherein the tackiness between said one surface of the film and the rubber component of the tire member is from 5 to 30N as determined from a sample having a width of 12.7 mm.

10. The process of claim 2, wherein the tackiness between said one surface of the film and the rubber component of the tire member is from 14.9 to 30N as determined from a sample having a width of 12.7 mm.