Rubber compound for tire tread rubber

US6818693B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Continental AG · DE

Inventors

• Gert Heinrich · Hannover, DE
• Wolfram Herrmann · Wunstorf, DE
• Norbert Kendziorra · Garbsen, DE
• Thomas Pietag · Stadthagen, DE
• Carla Recker · Hannover, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 28, 2001
• Grant date: Nov 16, 2004
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2022

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C08K9/04
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A sulfur-curable rubber compound for a tire tread rubber of, in particular, a racing tire, which compound comprises at least one diene rubber, at least one filler and at least one plasticizer. The rubber compound comprises 5 to 90 phr of at least one layered silicate modified with alkylammonium ions and free of guest molecules that have been polymerized or swelled in by a prior treatment.