RTRI REPORT Jan. 1998

Development of the Long Life Train Rubber Hose

Masanori HANSAKA, Mikio FUKUCHI, Naoto MIFUNE


With an increase of the need for reducing labor for train maintenance, it is necessary that the service life of train rubber hose is extended. To meet this need, we have developed a new long life train rubber hose. The outer rubber of the hose is chloroprene rubber which has stronger endurance to heat, ultraviolet, ozone, etc. than natural rubber, now used as train rubber hose. As a result of property and endurance tests, it has been revealed the long life hose has satisfactory properties and strong endurance.