Tire with tread of rubber and carbon black with silica domains on its surface prepared by extended reactive mixing

• Main Authors: AGOSTINI GIORGIO, LINSTER TOM DOMINIQUE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 01.04.2008
• Subjects: CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS RELATED TO TYRES; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED BY REACTIONS ONLY INVOLVINGCARBON-TO-CARBON UNSATURATED BONDS; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; REPAIRING, OR CONNECTING VALVES TO, INFLATABLE ELASTIC BODIESIN GENERAL; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRANSPORTING; TYRE CHANGING OR REPAIRING; TYRE INFLATION; USE OF INORGANIC OR NON-MACROMOLECULAR ORGANIC SUBSTANCES ASCOMPOUNDING INGREDIENTS; VEHICLE TYRES; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A tire is provided having a circumferential tread of a diene-based rubber composition reinforced with a silica-containing carbon black which contains domains of silica on its surface prepared by extended reactive mixing of said silica-containing carbon black with a coupling agent together with at le...