Claims
- 1. A pneumatic tire comprising a tire tread which substantially contacts at least a road surface wherein a foamed rubber layer is provided at a surface of the tire tread, and
- wherein said foamed rubber layer has closed cells whose average diameter is about 1 .mu.m to about 120 .mu.m and has an expansion ratio of about 1% to about 100%, and a solid-phase rubber portion having a rubber composition comprising a mixture of at least both of a diene based rubber and silica, and a vulcanization accelerator which includes at least both a thiazol-based accelerator and a sulfenamide-based accelerator, with said silica present in an amount of from about 10 to about 80 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber.
- 2. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said foamed rubber layer is about 10% to about 70% by volume of the volume of the entire tread.
- 3. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said foamed rubber layer has closed cells whose average diameter is about 10 .mu.m to about 120 .mu.m.
- 4. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said foamed rubber layer has an expansion ratio of about 2% to about 50%.
- 5. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said diene-based rubber includes about 30 parts by weight or more of cis-1,4-polybutadiene in 100 parts by weight of said diene-type rubber.
- 6. A pneumatic tire according to claim 5, wherein said silica and cis-1,4-polybutadiene in the foamed rubber layer present are in amounts which satisfy the following equation:
- �(parts by weight of B)-30 parts by weight!.ltoreq.�1.5.times.(parts by weight of S)!
- wherein,
- B represents cis-1,4-polybutadiene;
- S represents silica;
- parts by weight of B represents an amount of B in parts by weight in 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber; and
- parts by weight of S represents an amount of S in parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of said diene-type rubber.
- 7. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said diene-based rubber comprises about 30 parts by weight or more of cis-1,4-polybutadiene and about 70 parts by weight or less of natural rubber in 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber.
- 8. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein the amount of said silica is about 15 to about 60 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber.
- 9. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said diene-based rubber includes about 30 parts by weight or more of cis-1,4-polybutadiene in 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber, and the amount of said silica is about 15 to about 60 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber.
- 10. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said rubber composition includes a silane coupling agent, and the amount of said silane coupling agent is about 3% to about 20% by weight based on said silica.
- 11. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, said rubber composition further comprising a vulcanizing agent, which includes sulfur, and with said vulcanization accelerator present in an amount of from about 0.6 to about 6.0 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber, and said vulcanizing agent present in an amount of from about 0.5 to about 3.0 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber.
- 12. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said vulcanization accelerator and said vulcanizing agent are present in amounts which satisfy the following equation:
- 1.2.ltoreq.(parts by weight of overall amount of vulcanization accelerator/parts by weight of amount of vulcanizing agent).ltoreq.4.0
- wherein,
- parts by weight represents an amount based on 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber.
- 13. A pneumatic tire according to claim 1, wherein said rubber composition also includes carbon black.
- 14. A pneumatic tire according to claim 13, wherein said rubber composition includes about 5 to about 50 parts by weight of said carbon black based on 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber, said carbon black having a nitrogen absorption specific surface area (N.sub.2 SA) of about 105 m.sup.2 or more per gram and having a dibutyl phthalate absorption number (DBP) of about 110 ml or more per 100 grams.
- 15. A pneumatic tire according to claim 13, wherein a sum of an amount of said carbon black and an amount of said silica included in said rubber composition is about 80 parts weight or less based on 100 parts by weight of said diene-based rubber, and a weight ratio of the amount of said carbon black to the amount of said silica is from 1:0.5 to 1:15.
Priority Claims (1)
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Parent Case Info
This is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 08/409,047 filed Mar. 23, 1995.
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