Patent ID: 8722781

Claim:
A pneumatic tire using, as a tread thereof, a rubber composition comprising: (1) 100 parts by weight of a rubber selected from the group consisting of natural rubber, butadiene rubbers, styrene-butadiene rubbers, and polyisoprene, (2) 1 to 30 parts by weight of (a) a polyether (E1) having the formula (I): R 1 —{(OCH 2 CH 2 CH 2 CH 2 ) m (OA) n —OH} q (I) wherein R 1 is a residue of a C 1 to C 24 compound having 1 to 6 hydroxyl groups, from which at least one hydroxyl group is removed, A is a C 2 to C 24 alkylene group other than a 1,4-butylene group, q is an integer of 1 to 6 and m and n are independently integers of 1 to 600 and having an HLB of 10 or less and a weight average molecular weight of 500 to 30,000 , and/or (b) the derivative thereof (E2), which is an alkyletherized product or linear aliphatic carboxylic acid esterified product of said polyether (E1) or (c) a reaction product of polyether (E1) and a polyisocyanate or polyhalide; wherein said esterified product is an esterified product obtained from a reaction of the polyether (E1) with at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a C 2 to C 22 linear aliphatic carboxylic acid, C 2 to C 22 linear aliphatic carboxylic acid anhydride, a carboxylic acid linear alkyl ester having a C 1 to C 4 linear alkyl group, and a C 2 to C 22 carboxylic acid halide, (3) 30 to 100 parts by weight of a filler including silica; and (4) a vulcanization accelerator selected from the group consisting of aldehyde-ammonia-amine-based, thiourea-based, guanidine-based, thiazole-based, sulfenamide-based, dithiocarbamine acid salt-based, xaritogen acid salt-based, and dithiophosphoric acid salt-based vulcanization accelerators.