Title of Invention

"MULTI-LAYERED AIR PERMEATION PREVENTING LAYER OF PNEUMATIC TIRES"

Abstract The present invention provides a multi layered air permeation preventive layer of pneumatic tires having -50 to -10¡É of the steep decreasing range of the elastic modulus includes inner liner layer of a non-drawn film formed from a polymer composition including 60 to 90 wt.% of a thermoplastic resin and 10 to 40 wt.% of an elastomer, and carcass layer coated on the inside and outside of the inner liner layer, the tire thus manufacture has no fracture under a severe deformation during the tire shaping process, facilitating the tire manufacture, and exhibits an air permeation preventive property as an excellent air permeation preventive layer.
Full Text Multi-layered air permeation preventing layer of pneumatic tires
Technical Field
The present invention relates to a multi layered air permeation preventing layer of
pneumatic tires. More specifically, the present invention relates to a multi-layer air
permeation preventing layer of pneumatic tires which includes inner liner layer obtained
by the polymer composition including a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer, and a
carcass rubber layer coated on the inside and outside of the inner liner layer.
Background Art
The most important problem the automobile industry is faced with is the reduction
of fuel consumption rate. This increasingly requires the reduction of the weight of tires.
Currently, the inside of tires has an inner liner or an air permeation preventing
layer that is made of a halogenated butyl rubber or another rubber having low air
permeation.
However, the halogenated butyl rubber employed as an inner liner or an air
permeation preventing layer has a high hysteresis loss, causing a ripple on the inner rubber
of a carcass layer and the air permeation preventing layer after a vulcanization of the tire
and thereby deforming both the carcass layer and the air permeation preventing layer. This
leads to an increased rolling resistance.
As a solution of this problem, a rubber sheet called "tie rubber" having a low
hysteresis loss is inserted between the air permeation preventing layer (halogenated butyl
rubber) and the carcass layer. The insertion of the rubber sheet increases the total thickness
of the tire layer above 1 mm (l,000um) in addition to the thickness of the air permeation
preventing layer made of a halogenated butyl rubber. This results in the increased weight
of the complete tire.
In an attempt to solve this problem, there have been suggested techniques of
employing different materials for the air permeation preventing layer of pneumatic tires
instead of such a conventional rubber material as halogenated butyl rubber having low air
permeation.
For example, Japanese Patent Laid Open No. 6-40207 proposes a technique of
providing an air permeation preventing layer in the inside of the tire by laminating a low
air permeation layer including a polyvinylidene chloride film or an ethylene-vinyl alcohol
copolymer film and an adhesive layer including a polyolefin film, an aliphatic polyamide
film, or a polyurethane film to form a thin film, affixing the thin film to the inner side of
the green tire consisting of non-vulcanized rubber to make the adhesive layer in contact
with the carcass layer, and then vulcanizing and shaping the green tire.
The use of a thin air permeation preventing layer makes it possible to reduce the
weight of the tire without deteriorating the maintenance of pneumatics.
However, the thermoplastic multi-layer film, if used for an inner liner or another
air permeation preventing layer, has a low elongation with respect to repeated
deformations while in use, causing a lot of cracks on it and hence a deterioration of air
tightness.
hi the conventional tire manufacturing method that requires a step of shaping an
inner liner, the thermoplastic film commercially available encounters oriented
crystallization caused by drawing and heat crystallization by thermosetting after drawing
and annealing processes, providing poor elongation against deformation in the shaping
process with a consequence of fracture. In conclusion, the conventional manufacturing
methods make it impossible to realize the fabrication of tires from thermoplastic films
commercially available.
Disclosure of Invention
In an attempt to derive an alternative method for employing a thermoplastic resin
as an inner liner, the inventors of the present invention have found out that rnulti layered
air permeation preventing layer for pneumatic tires having an inner liner layer of the nondrawn
film formed from a polymer composition including a mixture of an elastomer and a
thermoplastic resin excellent in air permeation preventive property, and the carcass layer
on the inner and outer sides of the inner liner layer can be used as an air permeation
preventive layer to guarantee high elongation, against deformation during the shaping
process, a good air permeation preventive property and the thermoplastic film act like a
carcass rubber owing to high thickness difference between carcass rubber and
thermoplastic film.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a multi layered air
permeation preventing layer for pneumatic tires which can be easily formed the tire owing
to having excellent durability against- deformation during the vulcanization, and has good
air tightness property, and does not affect other tire properties thanks to thermoplastic
resin acts like a rubbery state.
To achieve the above object of the present invention, there is provide a multi
layered air permeation preventing layer of pneumatic tires comprising the inner liner layer
of a non-drawn film formed from polymer composition including 60 to 90 wt.% of a
thermoplastic resin and 10 to 40 wt.% of an elastomer, and the carcass rubber layer coated
on the inside and outside of the inner liner layer, wherein the multi layered air permeation
preventing layer of pneumatic tires has a -50 to -lOt^ of steep decreasing range of the
elastic modulus.
The present invention will be described in further detail as follows.
The multi layered air permeation preventing layer for pneumatic tires according to
the present invention comprise a non-drawn film formed from polymer composition
including a mixture of a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer as a inner liner layer, and a
carcass rubber layer coated on the inside and outside of the inner liner layer.
The tire manufacturing process necessarily includes a shaping process, during
which the film is formed to have the shape of a tire with an air blower at the room
temperature. Accordingly, the inner liner must not have any fracture caused by the
deformation in the shaping process. However, most of the films commercially available
are not durable against defonnation from oriented crystallization, heat crystallization and
oriented crystallization after the drawing and annealing processes.
For that reason, the present invention applies deformation during the shaping
process in the tire manufacturing process as a conception of film drawing at the room
temperature.
Instead of forming a drawn film from a polymer composition including a
thermoplastic resin and an elastomer, a non-drawn film is used to produce an inner liner
•without drawing or annealing so as to secure ductility against deformation in the shaping
process.
The specific polymer composition for the non-drawn film of the present invention
is as follows. The specific examples of the thermoplastic resin as used herein may include
polyamide resins, e.g., nylon 6, nylon 66, nylon 46, nylon 11, nylon 12, nylon 610, nylon
612, nylon 6/66 copolymer, nylon 6/66/610 copolymer, nylon MXD, nylon 6T, nylon 6/6T
copolymer, nylon 66/PP copolymer, or nylon 66/PPS copolymer, N-alkoxyalkylated
polyamide resins, e.g., methoxymethylated nylon 6, methoxymethylated nylon 6/610, or
methoxymethylated nylon 612; polyester resins, e.g., polybutyleneterephthalate,
polyethyleneterephthalate, polyettryleaeisophthalate, PET/PEI copolymer, polyacrylate,
polybutylenenaphthalate, liquid crystal polyester, polyoxyalkylenediimido 2-
oxygen/polybutylate terephthalate copolymer, or other aromatic polyesters; polynitrile
resins, e.g., polyacrylonitrile(PAN), polymethacrylonitrile, acrylonitrile/styrene copolymer
(AS), methacrylonitrile/styrene copolymer, or methacrylonitrile/styrene/butadiene
copolymer; polymethacrylate resins, e.g., polymethylmethacrylate(PMMA), or
polyethylmethacrylate; polyvinyl resins, e.g., vinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), vinyl
alcohol/ethyl ene copolymer (EVOH). polyvinylidenechloride(PVDC),
polyvinylch]oride(PVC), polyvinylchloride/polyvinylidenechloride copolymer,
polyvinylidene chloride/methylacrylate copolymer. or polyvmylidenechloride/acrylonitrile
copolymer; cellulose resins, e.g., cellulose acetate, or cellulose acetobutyrate; fluoride
resins, e.g., polyvinylidenefluoride(PVDF), polyvinyl fluoride, polychlorofluoroethylene
(PCTFE), or tetrafluoroethylene/ethylene copolymer; or amide resins, e.g., aromatic
polyimide (PI), etc.
The elastomer compatible with these thermoplastic resins may include, if not
specifically limited to, diene rubbers and their hydrogenated products, e.g., natural rubber,
isoprene rubber, epoxidated natural rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, butadiene rubber
(high cis-butadiene rubber, or low cis-butadiene rubber), natural rubber-butadiene rubber,
hydrogenated natural rubber-butadiene rubber, or hydrogenated styrene-butadiene rubber,
olefin rubbers, e.g., ethylene-propylene rubber (EPDM), maleic acid-modified ethylenepropylene
rubber, IIR, isobutylene and aromatic vinyl or diene monomer copolymer, acryl
rubber, or ionomer; haiogenated rubbers, e.g., Br-IIR, Cl-ItR, brominated isobutylene
paramethylstyrene copolymer (Br-EPMS), CR, chlorohydrine rubber (CHR),
chlorosulfonated polyethylene (GSM), chlorinated polyethylene (CM), or maleic acidmodified
chlorinated polyethylene (M-CM); silicon rubbers, e.g., methylvinylsilicon
rubber, dimethylsilicon rubber, or methylphenylvinylsilicon rubber, sulfur-containing
rubbers, e.g., polysulfide rubber, fluoride rubbers e.g., vmynaene rmonae ruooer,
fluorine-containing vinylether rubber, tetrafluoroethylenepropylene rubber, fluorinecontaining
silicon rubber, or fluorine-containing phosphazene rubber; or thermoplastic
elastomers, e.g., styrene elastomer, olefin elastomer, ester elastomer, urethane elastomer,
polyamide elastomer, etc.
The composition of the thermoplastic resin and the elastomer can be determined
according to the balance of film thickness, internal air permeation, and flexibility.
Preferably, the polymer composition includes 60 to 90 wt.% of the thermoplastic resin and
10 to 40 wt.% of the elastomer. When the content of the elastomer exceeds 40 wt.%, the
film of the polymer composition is not suitable for a tire inner liner because of its poor gas
barrier property inadequate to the air insulation of the tire. With the content of the
elastomer less than 10 wt.%, the film cannot realize the rubber-like elastomer features to
give the difficulty in the manufacture of tires and make the tires vulnerable to fracture
while running.
It is preferable that a suitable compatibility enhance is used as a third component
when the thermoplastic resin is incompatible with the elastomer. The addition of such a
compatibility enhancer deteriorates the interfacial tension between the thermoplastic resin
and the elastomer to reduce the size of the rubber particles forming the dispersed phase,
thereby helping the features of the two components realize more effectively. The
compatible enhancer may include a copolymer having at least either one structure of the
thermoplastic resin or the elastomer, or a copolymer structure having an epoxy group, a
carbonyl group, a halogen group, an amine group, an oxazoline group, or a hydroxyl
group that is reactive to the thermoplastic resin or the elastomer. The compatible enhancer
is preferably selected depending on the types of the thermoplastic resin and the elastomer,
and generally includes styrene/ethylene-butylene block copolymer (SEBS) and its maleic
acid-modified product, EPDM, EPDM/styrene or EPDM/acrylonitrile graft copolymer and
its maleic acid-modified product, styrene/malate copolymer, reactive phenoxine, etc. The
content of the compatibility enhancer is, if not specifically limited to, 0.5 to 10 parts by
weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the thermoplastic resin and the elastomer.
In addition to the mentioned essential polymer components, a compatibility
enhancer polymer or another polymer can be optionally used as long as it does not
deteriorate the necessary properties of the polymer composition for tires. The use purpose
of another polymer is improving the compatibility of the thermoplastic resin and the
elastomer, enhancing the film forming ability of the materials and the heat resistance, and
reducing the manufacture cost. The specific examples of such a material may include
polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, ABS, SBS. SEES, polycarbonate, etc. The
material may also include another olefin copolymers, their maleic acid-modified, or their
derivative containing a glycidyl group. The polymer composition of the present invention
may further include additives that can be mixed with a polymer formula, such as filler,
carbon, powdered quartz, calcium carbonate, alumina, titan dioxide, etc.
The polymer composition thus obtained is subjected to melt-extrusion and
quenching to produce a non-drawn sheet, which is applied as an inner liner.
The inner liner of the present invention thus obtained, which has an oxygen
permeability of less than 15 X 10"3 ccm/m2-24hr-atm, and a fracture elongation of more
than 200 % at the room temperature, causes no fracture even by severe deformation during
the tire shaping process, facilitating the tire manufacture, and provides good air tightness
and oxygen leakage preventive ability.
Preferably, the non-drawn sheet has the maximum value of the complete elastic
deformation interval, that is, a yield point of more than 10 % at -35 °C.
The inner liner of the tire thus manufactured is also deformed under different
deformation conditions, which cause a deterioration of the performance or me inner nner.
Especially, the deformation caused under severe conditions due to temperature variations
during the use of the tire further deteriorates the performance of the inner liner.
Accordingly, the inner liner of the present invention as a non-drawn sheet has a
yield point of more than 10 % at -35 °C, so it can maintain the performance of the inner
liner in spite of a tire deformation under normal weather conditions and a deformation
under severe cold conditions of-35 °C.
In applying such a thermoplastic film to tires, a behavior like a rubbery state should
be realized. For this purpose, the carcass rubber layer may be adhered to the outside and
inside of the inner liner so as that thin thickness thermoplastic resin film can act
identically like thick carcass rubber compared with it.
When the behavior like the rubbery state is applied to the thermoplastic resin film,
it happens a problem that an oxygen permeability which is main property of the inner liner
is increased. Accordingly, it is very difficult that both the behavior like the rubber and the
oxygen permeability are satisfied at the same time because of their opposed properties.
However, if thickness difference between the inner liner on the film and the carcass rubber,
and the adhesive strength are large, the thermoplastic resin film can act identically like the
tire rubber without acting independently.
In using these properties, the reduction of the weight of tires may be satisfied at the
same time, and if the adhesive strength of film and tire are permitted at its maximum, a
behavior of film can max be reduced owing to the inner line film having the thickness
against the reduction of air tightness with thick thickness of carcass rubber, it is preferable
that a suitable thickness of carcass rubber layer is 0.5 to 5mm.
Also, carcass rubber layers may be afSxed to both sides of the inner liner so as to
compensate for scratch resistance.
The adhesive as used herein may include anything if used when manufacturing a
commercial tire and is not specially limited.
For this purpose, an adhesive layer must be provided on both sides of the inner
liner by adhesive coating. In addition, a peeling paper is used so as to prevent adhesion
between the both-sided adhesive layers for easier packaging in the roll form. The peeling
paper as used herein may include a polyethyleneterephtalate, polypropylene, polyethylene
films and so on. The vulcanization process of inner liner is performed according to a
general tire manufacturing method after such an adhesion.
It is desirable that the multi-layered air permeation preventing layer manufactured
by the non-drawn film adhered to the carcass rubber layer on the both side of the inner
liner layer has a steep decreasing range in elastic modulus of—50 to -10 "C.
The "steep decreasing range in elastic modulus" of the present invention means a
steep decreasing range in elastic modulus value according to a temperature change as
shown in a graph of FIG. 2.
Preferably, the multi-layered air permeation preventing layer satisfy the following
equation 1 at the described temperature range, that is, from -50 °C to -10"C
Equation 1
E'VE'2 = 100 "1,000,
wherein, the E'1 is the elastic modulus value at -50'C and E'2 is the elastic modulus
value at-10TD.
Further, at the temperature range of 0 to 200 "C, it is desirable that elastic modulus
values satisfy the following equation 2.
Equation 2
B'3/E'4 = less than 10,
wherein, the E'3 is the elastic modulus value at 0"C and E'4 is the elastic modulus
value at 200 °C.
Also, the absolute value of the elastic modulus of the present invention is
preferably less than 1010 dyne/cm! at -35 °C.
Brief Description of Drawings
FIG. 1 is a graph illustrating a change of an elastic modulus value according to
time to a non-drawn film sheet of a thermoplastic resin obtained by comparative examples
1 to 5.
FIG. 2 is a graph illustrating a change of an elastic modulus value according to
time to example 2, comparative example 3, comparative example 7, and carcass rubber.
Best Mode for Carrying out the Invention
Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail by way of the
following examples, which are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
Example 1
A polymer composition including a blend of nylon 6 and a polyamide elastomer at
a weight ratio of 80 to 20 was melt at 260°C, extruded with a annular die, and quenched to
obtain a SOum-thickness non-drawn polyamide sheet The adhesive including aqueous
type latex and isocyanate coated on the both sides of inner and outer sides of the nondrawn
polyamide sheet under following-coating condition to form the carcass rubber layer,
and it vulcanized at 160 "C and SOkgf of the pressure for 15 minutes to form the multi
layered air permeation preventing layer for pneumatic tires.
Adhesive coating condition
- Coating rate : 30m/min
- Coating width : 520mm
- Coating method : coating using Gravia of 200 mesh
- Rubber roll: 505mm rubber roll
- Dry condition : at 130°C of hot air, 10m of line length
- Peeling film : PET film having 12(M thickness
Example 2
Procedures were performed to prepare a multi layered air permeation preventing
layer in the same manner as described in Example 1, excepting that the 50pm-thickness
non-drawn polyamide sheet formed from the weight ratio of nylon 6 to polyamide
elastomer was 70 to 30 as a inner liner layer.
Comparative Example 1
Procedures were performed to prepare a multi layered air permeation preventing
layer in the same manner as described in Example 1, excepting that the 50um-thickness
non-drawn polyamide sheet formed from nylon 6 was used alone without any elastomer,
and adhesive of the carcass rubber layer was not performed.
Comparative Example 2
Procedures were performed to prepare a multi layered air permeation preventing
layer in the same manner as described in Example 1, excepting that adhesive of the
carcass rubber layer was not performed.
Comparative Example 3
Procedures were performed to prepare a multi layered air permeation preventing
layer in the same manner as described in Example 2, excepting that adhesive of the
carcass rubber layer was not performed.
Comparative Example 4
Procedures were performed to prepare a multi layered air permeation preventing
layer in the same manner as described in Example 1, excepting that the 5 Oum-thickness
non-drawn polyamide sheet formed from the weight ratio of nylon 6 to polyamide
elastomer was 50 to 50 as a inner liner layer, and adhesive of the carcass rubber layer was
not performed.
Comparative Example 5
Procedures were performed to prepare a multi layered air permeation preventing
layer in the same manner as described in Example 1, excepting that the 50um-thickness
non-drawn polyamide sheet formed from polyamide elastomer was used alone, and
adhesive of the carcass rubber layer was not performed.
Comparative Example 6
Procedures were performed to prepare a multi layered air permeation preventing
layer in the same manner as described in Example 1, excepting that adhesive of the
carcass rubber layer was coated on the one side of the inner liner layer.
Comparative Example 7
Procedures were performed to prepare a multi layered air permeation preventing
layer in the same manner as described in Example 2, excepting that adhesive of the
carcass rubber layer was coated on the one side of the inner liner layer.
The multi layered air permeation preventing layers obtained in Examples 1 and 2
and Comparative Examples 1 to 7 were measured oxygen permeability and tensile
strength at the room temperature and low temperature, and the results are presented in
Tables 1 and 2.
The specific measurement methods are described as follows.
(1) Oxygen permeability: ASTM D 3895, with an oxygen permeability analyzer
(Model 8000, Illinois Instruments Co., Ltd.)
(2) Room-Temperature Tensile Strength
Instrument - Universal Material Tester (Model 4204, Instron Co., Ltd.)
Head Speed - 30.0 mm/min
Grip Distance - 100 mm
Sample Width - 10 mm
Temperature - Room Temperature (25°C, 60 RH%)
(3) Low-Temperature Tensile Strength
Instrument - Universal Material Tester (Model 4204, Instron Co., Ltd.)
Head Speed - 300 mm/min
Grip Distance - 35 mm
Sample Width - 50.8 mm
Temperature--35 °C
(4)V!sco-elastic behavior
Instrument - Rheovibron(DDV- IIEP, Orientech Co., Ltd.)
Condition -11 OHz, 2°C /min, 1 count/min
Temperature - - 100~200°C(cooling with liquid nitrogenJgasjtv
The condition for affixing and vulcanizing the carcass rubber layer is the same with
vulcanization condition when manufacturing tires. The practical tires include the carcass
rubber thickness of about 1 mm adhered to the most inside layer of the tire when affixing
both sides. On the opposite side, however, a viscoelastic behavior will be very rubbery
because the carcass rubber as a main body of tire has a thickness of more than 1mm. In
using the estimating method, the final matter properties thereafter will be estimated.
Table 1
Sample
Example 1
Example 2
Comparative example 1
Comparative example 2
Comparative example 3
Comparative example 4
Comparative example 5
Comparative example 6
Comparative example 7
Oxygen permeability (ccm/m2'24hratm)
4.9 X 10'3
6.2 X lO'3
1.8 X 1(T3
4.9 X 10'3
6.2 X- 10'3
17.9 X 1CT3
154.8 X icr3
4.9 X IQ'3
6.2 X 10'3
As can be seen from Table 1, when the content of the polyamide elastomer
amounts to exceed 40 wt.%, the films had such an oxygen permeability to exhibit a poor
gas barrier property inadequate to the air insulation of the tire. Therefore, the films were
difficult to use as a tire inner liner.
Further, the adhesion of die carcass rubber layer has no effect on a gas barrier
property whether the layer is one side or both sides.
As the result to tensile fracture elongation at the room temperature and the low
temperature, the matter property change is observed according to the content of the
elastomer as the following table 2 which are shown only comparative examples not
affixing the carcass rubber layer.
Table 2
Comparative
Example 1
Comparative
Example 2
Comparative
example 3
Comparative
example 4
Comparative
example 5
Room temperature (25 °C)
Maximum fracture
elongation (%)
362.4
412.2
485.6
543.2
635.2
Low temperature (-35°C)
Yield
Point (%)
7.3
12.7
12.9
13.8
24.2
Maximum fracture
elongation (%)
60
140
151
167
230
As can be seen from Table 2, all the samples had a room-temperature elongation
of more than 300 % high enough to stand a deformation of about 200% at the room
temperature during the shaping process.
La the low-temperature measurements, the sample of the Comparative Example 1
" had a yield point of 73%, which means that the tire manufactured cannot guarantee a
complete elasticity recovery under a deformation of more than 7.3% at a low temperature
of -35°C while running and possibly has a permanent deformation to cause a serious
problem in maintaining the air tightness. In addition, other samples excepting
Comparative Example 1 had a yield point of more than 10%, implementing that the tire
manufactured realizes a complete elasticity recovery under a deformation of less than 10%
even at a low temperature of -35°C while running, without affecting other properties such
as durability. However, in the case of the comparative examples without carcass rubber
layer can not have a steep decreasing range of a elastic modulus, as shown hi the viscoelastic
behavior following Figures.
The result of viscoelastic behavior is shown in FIGS 1 and 2.
Fig. 1 is a measurement result of viscoealstic behavior to comparative examples 1
to 5. Referring to Fig. 1, the deterioration of elastic modulus increase according to an
increase of the content of the elastomer. However, it will be known that the absolute value
is large without getting out of a limitation of the thermoplastic resin.
Fig. 2 is an example in case of the carcass rubber being adhered and also shows the
viscoelastic behavier of only the carcass rubber layer of vulcanized 1mm thickness for
reference.
Referring Fig. 2, the elastic modulus differences between the comparative example
3 of the thermoplastic resin and the carcass rubber are to differ from their absolute value
and shape. However, example 2 and comparative example 7 show very rubbery behavior.
Particulary, when the carcass rubber adhesive side is both sides of the thermoplastic resin
film(Exmaple 2), it brings a synergy effect of rubbery behavior more than adhered to one
side(Comparative example 7).
As shown from the result of Fig. 2, the multi-layered air permeation preventing
layer of pneumatic tires according to the present invention includes the steep decreasing
range of the elastic modulus at -50 ~ -10 "C, and it satisfy the following equation.
Equation 1
E'VE'2= 100 "1,000
Wherein, the E'1 is the elastic modulus value at -50 "C and E'2 is the elastic
modulus value at -10 °C.
Further, within temperature scope of 0 ~ 2001), the elastic modulus values at 0*C
and 200 X? satisfy the following equation.
Equation 2
E'3/E'4 = less than 10
Wherein, the E'3is the elastic modulus value at 0"C and E'4 is the elastic modulus
value at 200 °C.
Further, the absolute value of the elastic modulus is less than 10 dyne/cnf at -35 °C.
Industrial Applicability
As described above in detail, when a non-drawn sheet obtained from a polymer
composition including a thermoplastic resin and an elastomer is applied to an inner liner
and a carcass rubber layer adheres to both the sides according to the present invention, the
tire has no fracture under a severe deformation during the tire shaping process owing to a
fracture elongation of more than 200%, and thus being easy to manufacture the tire and
preventing bad impact to tire property by acting a rubbery behavior in spite of the
thermoplastic resin film without a reduction of air tightness. Accordingly, the present
invention is useful as an air permeation preventive layer of pneumatic tires.
While this invention has been described in connection with the embodiments, it is
to be understood to those skilled in the art that the invention is not limited to the disclosed
embodiments, but, on the contrary, is intended to cover various modifications and
equivalent arrangements. Particularly, the number of layers is flexible and the core/shell
structure can have a gradient Accordingly, the technical coverage of the present invention
is to be included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.






We Claim:.
1. Multi-layered air permeation preventing layer of pneumatic tires comprising:
an inner liner layer of a nondrawn film has a fracture elongation of more than 200 % at the room
temperature and the yield point of more than 10 % at -35 "C comprising of 60 to 90 wt.% of a
thermoplastic resin and 10 to 40 wt.% of an elastomer, and
a carcass rubber layer adhered to the outside and inside of the non-drawn film; wherein, the multilayered
air permeation preventing layer has a -50 to -10°C of a steep decreasing range of an elastic
modulus.
2. Multi-layered air permeation preventing layer of pneumatic tires as claimed in claim 1, the elastic
modulus at the steep decreasing range of -50°C and -10°C satisfy the following equation 1 :
Equation 1
E' llE'2 = 100 - 1,000;
wherein, the E'1 is the elastic modulus value at -50°C, and E'2 is the elastic modulus value at -10°C.
3. Multi-layered air permeation preventing layer of pneumatic tires as claimed in claim 1, an elastic
modulus within temperature range of 0 to 200 "C satisfy the following equation 2:
Equation 2
E13/E'4 = less than 10;
wherein, the E'3 is the elastic modulus value at O0C), and is the elastic modulus value at 200 "C.

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Patent Number 257391
Indian Patent Application Number 7738/DELNP/2006
PG Journal Number 40/2013
Publication Date 04-Oct-2013
Grant Date 28-Sep-2013
Date of Filing 19-Dec-2006
Name of Patentee KOLON INDUSTRIES INC.
Applicant Address KOLON TOWER 1-23,BYULYANG-DONG,KWACHEN-CITY,KYUNGGI-DO 427-709,REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Inventors:
# Inventor's Name Inventor's Address
1 HONG,GI-IL CHEONGHYEONSA 318,KOLON INDUSTRIES INC., 212,GONGDAN-I DONG,GUMI-CITY,GYEONGSANGBUK-DO 730-031,REPUBLIC OF KOREA
2 SONG,GI-SANG 106-101,DAEBAEK APT., 540,OKGYE-DONG,GUMI-CITY,GYEONGSANGBUK-DO 730-771,REPUBLIC OF KOREA
3 BAEK, SANG-HYUN 402, HYOSUNG-JANGMI VILA 2ND, 216-8, HYEUNGGOK-2DONG, GUMI-CITY, GYEONGSANGBUK-DO 730-042, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
PCT International Classification Number B60C 5/14
PCT International Application Number PCT/KR2005/002019
PCT International Filing date 2005-06-28
PCT Conventions:
# PCT Application Number Date of Convention Priority Country
1 10-2004-0048866 2004-06-28 Republic of Korea