Patent ID: 7294666
Filing Date: 2007-11-13
Classification: B29B,B60C,C08K,C08L

Abstract:
1. A tire having a tread of a rubber composition which is prepared a process comprised of blending, based on 100 parts by weight (phr) of rubber: (A) 100 phr of elastomers consisting of (B) about 40 to about 120 phr reinforcing filler selected from at least one of carbon black and particulate synthetic amorphous silica; wherein said filler is comprised of (C) about 1 to about 7 phr of at least one silica coupling agent having a moiety reactive with hydroxyl groups on the surface of the said synthetic amorphous silica and an additional moiety interactive with the said elastomer(s); wherein said rubber composition is prepared by a process which comprises: