The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Matthew Jeremy List

David Ray Hubbell

Daniel Christian Shavers

Jonathan James Shondel

Marc Christopher Nowacki

Daniel Ray Beha

Jennifer Lyn Ryba

Phaniraj Muthigi

Rachel Tamar Graves

Justin Barker

Nicholas John Hill

A pneumatic tire having a rubber tread of a cap/base construction comprised of an outer rubber tread cap layer containing an outer running surface and an underlying rubber tread base layer, wherein said tread cap layer is comprised of a plurality of circumferential, longitudinal rubber tread cap zones of graduated physical properties, wherein said tread cap zones individually extend from said tread cap running surface radially inward to said tread base layer; wherein said tread cap zones are comprised of two primary tread cap zones and one central tread cap zone; wherein said central tread cap zone is positioned between said primary tread cap zones and spans at least 14 percent of the total running surface of the tread cap layer, wherein said primary tread cap zones are of substantially equal widths and collectively span at least 50 percent of the total running surface of the tread cap layer.

Pneumatic tire having tread with zoned cap layer

Tire

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Canton, OH, United States of America

Matthew Jeremy List