申请人:The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
公开号:US04762870A1
公开(公告)日:1988-08-09
It now has been found that the properties of rubber compositions comprising rubbers having an unsaturated carbon chain can be improved by including therein, a minor property-improving amount of at least one hydroxy-benzimidazole oxide compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, or a halogen, hydroxyl, lower acyl, lower hydrocarbyl, lower hydrocarbyloxy, lower hydrocarbylthio, carboxyl, cyano, amino, amide or --C(O)-- lower hydrocarbyl group, and R' is hydrogen, or a lower hydrocarbyl, lower hydrocarbyl amide, carboxamide carboxy acid, carboxy ester, or aryl group. When vulcanizates are prepared from such rubber compositions containing one or more fillers, the vulcanizates exhibit reduced low strain hysteresis and a high electrical resistivity. In another aspect of the invention, a filled vulcanizate made by vulcanizing uncured compositions of the type described above and containing a filler, particularly carbon black, is improved in filler interaction, hysteresis, modulus, compression set and resiliency. Rubber articles and portions thereof such as tires, hoses, springs, belts, treads, sidewalls and the like can be made utilizing the improved filled vulcanizates of the invention.
现在已经发现,包括具有不饱和碳链的橡胶在内的橡胶组合物的性能可以通过包含至少一种羟基苯并咪唑氧化物化合物的少量改性剂来改善,该化合物的化学式为##STR1##其中R是氢,卤素,羟基,较低的酰基,较低的烃基,较低的烃氧基,较低的烃硫基,羧基,氰基,氨基,酰胺或--C(O)--较低的烃基,而R'是氢,或较低的烃基,较低的烃酰胺,羧酰胺羧酸,羧酸酯或芳基。当制备含有一种或多种填料的这种橡胶组合物的硫化胶时,硫化胶表现出较低的低应变迟滞和较高的电阻率。在发明的另一个方面中,通过硫化上述未固化组合物并含有填料,特别是碳黑,可以改善填料相互作用、迟滞、模量、压缩回弹性等方面的填充硫化胶。利用本发明的改进型填充硫化胶可以制造橡胶制品和其部分,如轮胎、软管、弹簧、皮带、胎面、侧壁等。