SEALANT COMPOSITION
Provided is a sealant composition that makes it possible to suppress a flow of a sealant associated with travel while maintaining good sealing properties. As a sealant composition constituting a sealant layer ( 10 ) disposed on the inner surface of a pneumatic tire, the following are used: a sealant composition demonstrating a tensile stress at 20% elongation at 23° C. of 0.03 MPa or less and a tensile stress at 20% elongation at 80° C. of 0.002 MPa; or a sealant composition demonstrating a viscosity V 0 at 0° C. of from 2 kPa·s to 15 kPa s, a viscosity V 40 at 40° C. of from 1 kPa s to 14 kPa s, and a viscosity V 80 at 80° C. of from 0.5 kPa·s to 12 kPa·s.
1 . A sealant composition constituting a sealant layer disposed on an inner surface of a pneumatic tire, the sealant composition demonstrating a tensile stress M 23 at 20% elongation at 23° C. of 0.03 MPa or less, and a tensile stress M go at 20% elongation at 80° C. of 0.002 MPa or more.
2 . The sealant composition according to claim 1 , wherein M 23 /M 80 , a ratio of the tensile stress M 23 at 20% elongation at 23° C. to the tensile stress M 80 at 20% elongation at 80° C., is 2.0 or less.
3 . A sealant composition demonstrating a viscosity V 0 at 0° C. of from 2 kPa s to 15 kPa s, a viscosity V 40 at 40° C. of from 1 kPa s to 14 kPa s, and a viscosity V 80 at 80° C. of from 0.5 kPa s to 12 kPa s.
4 . The sealant composition according to claim 3 , having V 0 /V 40 , a ratio of the viscosity V 0 at 0° C. to the viscosity V 40 at 40° C., of 5 or less.
5 . The sealant composition according to claim 3 , having V 0 /V 80 , a ratio of the viscosity V 0 at 0° C. to the viscosity V 80 at 80° C., of 10 or less.
6 . The sealant composition according to claim 1 , wherein from 50 parts by mass to 400 parts by mass of a paraffin oil is blended per 100 parts by mass of a rubber component.
7 . The sealant composition according to claim 6 , wherein a molecular weight of the paraffin oil is 800 or more.
8 . The sealant composition according to claim 1 , wherein from 1 part by mass to 40 parts by mass of an organic peroxide, from 0.1 parts by mass to 40 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent, and more than 0 parts by mass and less than 1 part by mass of a crosslinking aid are blended per 100 parts by mass of a rubber component.
9 . The sealant composition according to claim 8 , wherein the crosslinking agent comprises a sulfur component.
10 . The sealant composition according to claim 8 , wherein a blended amount of the crosslinking agent is from 50 mass % to 400 mass % of a blended amount of the crosslinking aid.
11 . The sealant composition according to claim 8 , wherein the crosslinking aid is a thiazole-based compound or a thiuram-based compound.
12 . The sealant composition according to claim 6 , wherein the rubber component comprises butyl rubber, and a blended amount of the butyl rubber per 100 mass % of the rubber component is 10 mass % or more.
13 . The sealant composition according to claim 12 , wherein the butyl rubber comprises chlorinated butyl rubber, and a blended amount of the chlorinated butyl rubber per 100 mass % of the rubber component is 5 mass % or more.
14 . A pneumatic tire comprising the sealant layer formed of the sealant composition according to claim 1 .