Refrigerant-transporting hose
A refrigerant-transporting hose including an inner tube, an outer tube, and a reinforcing layer between the inner tube and the outer tube, the outer tube being formed of an outer tube rubber composition, the outer tube rubber composition containing a brominated copolymer rubber obtained by brominating a copolymer rubber of isomonoolefin and p-alkylstyrene, the content of the repeating units having bromine constituting the brominated copolymer rubber being from 0.8 to 1.5 mol % with respect to the total amount of the repeating units constituting the brominated copolymer rubber, a carbon black A having a dibutyl phthalate absorption amount of 40 cm 3 /100 g or less, a brominated alkylphenol resin, and zinc oxide, the content of the carbon black A being 35 parts by mass or greater with respect to 100 parts by mass of the brominated copolymer rubber. Such refrigerant-transporting hose achieves both workability and sealing property at an excellent level.
1. A refrigerant-transporting hose comprising: an inner tube; an outer tube;
and a reinforcing layer between the inner tube and the outer tube, the outer tube being formed of an outer tube rubber composition, the outer tube rubber composition comprising a brominated copolymer rubber obtained by brominating a copolymer rubber of isomonoolefin and p-alkylstyrene, a content of repeating units having bromine being from 0.8 to 1.5 mol % with respect to the total amount of repeating units constituting the brominated copolymer rubber, a carbon black A having a dibutyl phthalate absorption amount of 40 cm 3 /100 g or less, a brominated alkylphenol resin, and zinc oxide, the content of the carbon black A being 35 parts by mass or greater with respect to 100 parts by mass of the brominated copolymer rubber.
2. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , wherein the iodine adsorption amount of the carbon black A is from 10 to 40 g/kg.
3. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , wherein the carbon black A is FTF carbon black.
4. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , further comprising a carbon black B having a dibutyl phthalate absorption amount from 50 to 80 cm 3 /100 g.
5. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 4 , wherein the iodine adsorption amount of the carbon black B is from 15 to 30 g/kg.
6. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 4 , wherein the carbon black B is SRF carbon black.
7. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 4 , wherein the content of the carbon black B is from 20 to 120 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the brominated copolymer rubber.
8. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , wherein the outer tube rubber composition further comprises talc, and the content of the talc is from 10 to 80 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the brominated copolymer rubber.
9. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , wherein the content of the repeating units having bromine constituting the brominated copolymer rubber is from 1.1 to 1.3 mol % with respect to the total amount of the repeating units constituting the brominated copolymer rubber.
10. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , wherein the outer tube rubber composition further comprises a brominated copolymer rubber obtained by brominating a copolymer rubber of isomonoolefin and p-alkylstyrene, a content of the repeating units having bromine being less than 0.8 mol % or greater than 1.5 mol % with respect to the total amount of the repeating units constituting the brominated polymer rubber, the content of the carbon black A being 35 parts by mass or greater with respect to 100 parts by mass of the total combined amount of the brominated copolymer rubber in which the content of the repeating units having bromine is from 0.8 to 1.5 mol % with respect to the total amount of the repeating units constituting the brominated copolymer rubber, and the brominated copolymer rubber in which the content of the repeating units having bromine is less than 0.8 mol % or greater than 1.5 mol % with respect to the total amount of the repeating units having bromine constituting the brominated copolymer rubber.
11. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , wherein the tensile stress (M100) at 100% elongation of a rubber obtained by crosslinking the outer tube rubber composition is 7 MPa or greater.
12. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , wherein the inner tube has a plurality of layers, the innermost layer is a rubber layer, and the inner tube has a barrier layer outside the innermost layer.
13. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 12 , wherein the barrier layer comprises a polyamide resin.
14. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , wherein the reinforcing layer is a plurality of reinforcing layers.
15. The refrigerant-transporting hose according to claim 1 , which is a refrigerant-transporting hose for an automobile.