Patent ID: 6851462

Claim:
A pneumatic tire having a rubber component where the rubber composition in said component is comprised of (A) 100 parts by weight of at least one olefinically unsaturated rubber; (B) 1.5 to 50 phr of a cyclodextrin compound; and (C) 0.5 to 20 phr of a sulfur containing organosilicon compound of the formula: Z—Alk—S n —Alk—Z (II) in which Z is selected from the group consisting of where R 3 is an alkyl group of 1 to 4 carbon atoms, cyclohexyl or phenyl; R 4 is alkoxy of 1 to 8 carbon atoms, or cycloalkoxy of 5 to 8 carbon atoms; Alk is a divalent hydrocarbon of 1 to 18 carbon atoms and n is an integer from 2 to 8.