Patent ID: 6838511
Filing Date: 2005-01-04
Classification: B60C,C08L

Abstract:
1. A pneumatic rubber tire with a carcass with circumferential rubber tread and associated sidewalls, wherein said tread and a portion of said sidewalls adjacent to said tread are of a lug and groove configuration designed to be ground-contacting, wherein said lug and groove configuration extends from said tread over at least thirty, alternatively at least fifty, percent of the tire sidewall adjacent to said tread, and alternately at least to a maximum section width of the tire, and wherein (A) said lug and groove configured portion of said sidewall is of a rubber composition which comprises, based on 100 parts by weight rubber (phr), (B) said tread rubber of said circumferential tread, other than said rubber composition of said lug and groove configured sidewall, is comprised of, based on parts per 100 parts of rubber: