	US 11,945,956 B2
	Surface modified carbon black to simultaneously improve rolling resistance, wet traction, and wear resistance
Raymond Soufiani, Katy, TX (US); Eduardo Vega, Jr., Katy, TX (US); Lashan Madusha Hendavitharanage De Silva, Dickinson, TX (US); Frank E. Welsh, Sugar Land, TX (US); and Luis P. Chibante, Fredericton (CA)
Assigned to Continental Carbon Co., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Continental Carbon Co., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on May 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/197,835.
Application 18/197,835 is a division of application No. 17/581,544, filed on Jan. 21, 2022, granted, now 11,753,549.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/143,563, filed on Jan. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0303847 A1, Sep. 28, 2023
Int. Cl. C08L 9/06 (2006.01); C09C 1/56 (2006.01)

CPC C09C 1/565 (2013.01) [C08L 9/06 (2013.01); C09C 1/56 (2013.01); C01P 2002/88 (2013.01); C01P 2004/02 (2013.01); C01P 2004/50 (2013.01); C01P 2004/61 (2013.01); C01P 2004/62 (2013.01); C01P 2004/64 (2013.01); C01P 2006/12 (2013.01); C01P 2006/42 (2013.01); C08L 2205/025 (2013.01); C08L 2312/00 (2013.01)]

21 Claims

1. A surface modified low hysteresis carbon black (SMLHCB) compound to simultaneously improve rolling resistance, wet traction, and wear resistance, the SMLHCB compound comprising:

a low hysteresis carbon black having a surface that has been modified to have a surface modifier attached thereto, wherein the surface modifier comprises at least one amine group and at least one thiol group and/or di- and/or polysulfidic linkage.