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Laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, process for producing rubber laminate, and rubber laminate
Assignee: Zeon Corp
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Filing: 1995-01-24
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Granted: 1999-01-05
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Expires: 2015-01-24
Abstract
Abstract A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, which comprises (i) a vulcanizable fluororubber composition layer comprising a fluororubber and a metal oxide and (ii) a vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition layer consisting essentially of a nitrile rubber, an organic phosphonium salt of the following formula (1), an organic peroxide crosslinking system, and an organic basic vulcanization accelerator: ##STR1## wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are hydrocarbyl, and no more than three thereof may be amino or fluoroalkyl; and R 5 is hydrogen or alkyl. A vulcanized laminate made of the vulcanizable rubber composition layers is useful for a fuel hose or a diaphragm.
Inventors
- 👤 Motofumi Oyama
- 👤 Kazuyoshi Nakajima
Bibliographic Details
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US
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2026-10-30 17:04
CPC Classifications
B; B32; B32B; B32B25/00; B32B25/14; B32B1/00; B32B1/08; B32B25/04; B32B25/042; C; C08; C08K; C08K5/00; C08K5/49; C08K5/50; C08L; C08L9/00; C08L9/02; F; F16; F16L; F16L11/00; F16L11/04; B32B2305/00; B32B2305/72; B32B2597/00; C08K5/0008; C08K5/0025; C08L27/00; C08L27/02; C08L27/04; C08L27/06; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/13; Y10T428/1352; Y10T428/1379; Y10T428/25; Y10T428/256; Y10T428/258; Y10T428/31504; Y10T428/3154; Y10T428/31855; Y10T428/31909; Y10T428/31924; Y10T428/31928; Y10T428/31931; Y10T428/31935
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 28
Claim 1
Independent Claim
135 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, which comprises (i) a layer of a vulcanizable fluororubber composition comprising a fluororubber and a metal oxide and (ii) a layer of a vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition consisting essentially of a nitrile rubber, an organic phosphonium salt represented by the following formula (1), an organic peroxide crosslinking system, and an organic basic vulcanization accelerator: ##STR4## wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 each represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, and no more than three of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 may be a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group or a fluoroalkyl group; and R 5 represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
135 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, which comprises (i) a layer of a vulcanizable fluororubber composition comprising a fluororubber and a metal oxide and (ii) a layer of a vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition consisting essentially of a nitrile rubber, an organic phosphonium salt represented by the following formula (1), an organic peroxide crosslinking system, and an organic basic vulcanization accelerator: ##STR4## wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 each represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, and no more than three of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 may be a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group or a fluoroalkyl group; and R 5 represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
53 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition layer consists essentially of 100 parts by weight of a nitrile rubber, 0.5 to 1.0 parts by weight of the organic phosphonium salt, and 0.5 to 15 parts by weight an organic peroxide curing system.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
65 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in claim 1, wherein the vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition layer consists essentially of 100 parts by weight of a nitrile rubber, 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of the organic phosphonium salt, 0.5 to 1.5 parts by weight an organic peroxide curing system, and 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of an organic basic vulcanization accelerator.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
45 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene copolymer rubber is an acrylonitrile-butadiene copolymer having an acrylonitrile content of 20 to 60% by weight and a Mooney viscosity of 20 to 95.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
24 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the organic phosphonium salt is tetrabutylphosphonium benzotriazolate.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
35 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the organic peroxide crosslinking system comprises a combination of an organic peroxide with trimethylolpropane trimethacrylate or triallyl isocyanurate.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
45 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the organic basic vulcanization accelerator is selected from the group consisting of an aldehyde-ammonia organic vulcanization accelerator, an aldehyde-amine organic vulcanization accelerator, and a guanidine organic vulcanization accelerator.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
28 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the organic basic vulcanization accelerator is a guanidine organic vulcanization accelerator.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
24 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the organic basic vulcanization accelerator is diphenylguanidine.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
62 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition comprises less than 5 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of the nitrile rubber, of an oxide or hydroxide of at least one metal selected from those of group 2 to group 4 of the periodic table.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
45 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in claim 10, wherein the metal oxide or hydroxide is at least one selected from the group consisting of magnesium oxide, zinc oxide, aluminum oxide, zinc dioxide, calcium oxide, trilead tetroxide, calcium hydroxide and aluminum hydroxide.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
41 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the vulcanizable fluororubber composition layer comprises 100 parts by weight of a fluororubber and 1 to 30 parts by weight of a metal oxide.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
37 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the fluororubber is a copolymer of vinylidene fluoride with hexafluoropropylene or a terpolymer of vinylidene fluoride with hexafluoropropylene and tetrafluoroethylene.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
46 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the metal oxide in the vulcanizable fluororubber composition is an oxide of a metal selected from metals of group 2A, group 3B and group 4B of the periodic table.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
38 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the metal oxide in the vulcanizable fluororubber composition is an oxide of a metal of group 2A of the periodic table.
Claim 17
Dependent Claim
28 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 1 to 3, wherein the metal oxide in the vulcanizable fluororubber composition is magnesium oxide.
Claim 18
Dependent Claim
30 words
A process for producing a rubber laminate which comprises vulcanizing and adhering together the vulcanizable rubber composition layers in the laminate as described in any of claims 1 to 3.
Claim 19
Dependent Claim
12 words
A rubber laminate produced by the process as described in claim 17.
Claim 20
Dependent Claim
16 words
A material for a fuel hose which comprises the rubber laminate as claimed in claim 18.
Claim 21
Dependent Claim
15 words
A material for a diaphragm which comprises the rubber laminate as claimed in claim 18.
Claim 22
Dependent Claim
13 words
A fuel hose made of the rubber laminate as claimed in claim 18.
Claim 23
Dependent Claim
12 words
A diaphragm made of the rubber laminate as claimed in claim 18.
Claim 24
Dependent Claim
159 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, which comprises (i) a layer of a vulcanizable fluororubber composition comprising a fluororubber and a metal oxide and (ii) a layer of a vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition consisting essentially of a nitrile rubber blend which is a mixture of a copolymer rubber of an unsaturated nitrile monomer with a conjugated diene monomer and a polyvinyl chloride resin, an organic phosphonium salt represented by the following formula (1), an organic peroxide crosslinking system, and an organic basic vulcanization accelerator: ##STR5## wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 each represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, and no more than three of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 may be a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group or a fluoroalkyl group; and R 5 represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.
Claim 25
Dependent Claim
159 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, which comprises (i) a layer of a vulcanizable fluororubber composition comprising a fluororubber and a metal oxide and (ii) a layer of a vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition consisting essentially of a nitrile rubber blend which is a mixture of a copolymer rubber of an unsaturated nitrile monomer with a conjugated diene monomer and a polyvinyl chloride resin, an organic phosphonium salt represented by the following formula (1), an organic peroxide crosslinking system, and an organic basic vulcanization accelerator: ##STR5## wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 each represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, which may have a substituent, and no more than three of R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 may be a primary, secondary or tertiary amino group or a fluoroalkyl group; and R 5 represents hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.
Claim 26
Dependent Claim
55 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in claim 23, wherein the vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition layer consists essentially of 100 parts by weight of said nitrile rubber blend, 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of the organic phosphonium salt, and 0.5 to 15 parts by weight of an organic peroxide curing system.
Claim 27
Dependent Claim
67 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in claim 23, wherein the vulcanizable nitrile rubber composition layer consists essentially of 100 parts by weight of said nitrile rubber blend, 0.5 to 10 parts by weight of the organic phosphonium salt, 0.5 to 15 parts by weight of an organic peroxide curing system, and 0.1 to 5 parts by weight of an organic basic vulcanization accelerator.
Claim 28
Dependent Claim
60 words
A laminate of vulcanizable rubber composition layers, as claimed in any of claims 23 to 25, wherein the mixture of the unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene copolymer rubber and a polyvinyl chloride resin is a mixture of 95 to 50 parts by weight of the unsaturated nitrile-conjugated diene copolymer rubber and 5 to 50 parts by weight of a polyvinyl chloride resin.
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