Sughrue, Mion, Zinn Macpeak & Seas, PLLC
Process for surface treatment of vulcanized rubber and process for production of rubber-based composite material
 A process for surface treatment of a vulcanized rubber is disclosed, said process comprising: generating a nonequilibrium low-temperature plasma under atmospheric pressure between a cathode and an insulating dielectric which is interposed between the cathode and an anode while introducing a gas for generating plasma to a plasma-generating region between the cathode and the insulating dielectric, placing the vulcanized rubber in air and outside the plasma-generating region so that a surface of the vulcanized rubber faces the plasma-generating region, and directing the gas from the plasma-generating region toward the surface of the vulcanized rubber so that the gas impinges against the rubber surface for effecting surface treatment. 
Hideomi Koinuma Bridgestone Corporation
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Hideomi Kazuo Masato Yukihiro Nobuko
Koinuma Naito Yoshikawa Kusano Kato