Pneumatic tire having a tread containing resin

US6214919A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company · US

Inventors

• James A. Schlademan · West Chester, US
• Lawson Gibson Wideman · Tallmadge, US
• Edward J. Blok · Wadsworth, US
• Paul Harry Sandstrom · Tallmadge, US
• Angelo Bergomi · Akron, US
• Mark Leslie Kralevich, Jr. · Powell, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 1, 1999
• Grant date: Apr 10, 2001
• Expiry date: Jul 1, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T152/10495
• WIPO field: Macromolecular chemistry, polymers
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The present application relates to a pneumatic tire having a tread comprised of (a) a diene-based elastomer containing olefinic unsaturation and (b) from 1 to 50 phr of polymeric resinous material comprising from about 4 to about 60 weight percent units derived from piperylene, from about 10 to about 35 weight percent units derived from 2-methyl-2-butene and from about 18 to about 50 weight percent units derived from dicyclopentadiene.