The Goodyear & Tire Rubber Company

Miriam Laackmann

Christian Jean-Marie Kaes

Julia Martine Francoise Claudine Tahon

Carlo Kanz

Malik Djelloul-Mazouz

Melodie Dubreuil

Timo Benjamin Korfmann

Wolfgang Karl Maegerle

Cecilia Aguiar Da Silva

In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a rubber composition comprising 70 phr to 100 phr of styrene butadiene rubber including a first styrene butadiene rubber having a glass transition temperature within a range of −49° C. to −15° C. and a second styrene butadiene rubber having a glass transition temperature within a range of −50° C. to −89° C. Moreover, the rubber composition comprises 10 phr to 30 phr of one or more of natural rubber and synthetic polyisoprene rubber, 40 phr to 70 phr of silica, and 10 phr to 40 phr of at least one hydrocarbon resin selected from one or more of C5 resins, CPD resins, DCPD resins, C9 modified C5 resins, C9 modified CPD resins, and C9 modified DCPD resins. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to a tire comprising a tire tread with the aforementioned rubber composition.

Rubber composition and a tire

The invention relates to rubber compositions containing at least one diene-based elastomer containing dual functionalized styrene/butadiene elastomers and filler reinforcement for the elastomer(s) comprised of pre-hydrophobated precipitated silica together with processing aid for the pre-treated precipitated silica comprised of zinc salt of fatty acids. The invention further relates to a pneumatic tire with tread comprised of such.

Rubber composition containing pre-hydrophobated silica with zinc salt fatty acid processing aid and tire with tread

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Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Miriam Laackmann