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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003

Filed:

Feb. 12, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Tomohiro Kusano, Kodaira, JP;

Akira Matsuda, Tachikawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08K 3/34 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C08K 3/34 ;
Abstract

In a heavy duty pneumatic tire comprising a tread, the tread is made of a rubber composition comprising 20-67 parts by weight of carbon black and 3-20 parts by weight of silica based on 100 parts by weight of diene based rubber, wherein the carbon black has a ratio of a dibutyl phthalate (DBP) absorption to a 24M4 DBP absorption (DBP absorption/24M4 DBP absorption) of not less than 1.20 and a ratio of the DBP absorption to a nitrogen adsorption specific area (N SA) of not less than 0.8.


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