Patent ID: 9108464
Filing Date: 2015-08-18
Classification: B60C,C08C,C08K,C08L,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A rubber composition based on at least an epoxidized natural rubber (abbreviated to “ENR”), a reinforcing filler and, as plasticizing agent, an alpha-methylstyrene polymer resin having a number-average molecular weight between 400 and 2000 g/mol, a polydispersity index of less than 3, and a T g of greater than 20° C., which is miscible in the rubber composition at the content of resin and ENR present therein, and which is selected from the group consisting of homopolymers of the alpha-methylstyrene monomer and copolymers containing units derived from the alpha-methylstyrene monomer in an amount greater than 50 mol %.