Patent ID: 7378468

Claim:
A tire having at least one component of a rubber composition comprised of, based upon parts by weight per 100 parts by weight rubber (phr): (A) at least one diene-based elastomer, and (B) about 30 to about 120 phr of reinforcing filler comprised of: (1) about 0.1 to about 10 phr of a particulate carbonaceous composite comprised of a combination of disturbed crystalline phases and amorphous carbon phases, and (2) about 29.9 to about 110 phr of at least one additional reinforcing filler selected from: (a) about 29.9 to about 110 phr of rubber reinforcing carbon black, or (b) a combination of: (1) about 19.9 to about 100 phr of rubber reinforcing carbon black, and (2) about 10 to about 90 phr of synthetic amorphous precipitated silica aggregates, or (c) about 29.9 to about 110 phr of synthetic amorphous precipitated silica aggregates.