To provide a narrow and large-diameter tire capable of improving noise performance at high speeds without compromising handling performance at low temperatures.

The tire has a tread portion formed of an elastomer composition. A relationship between a tire outer diameter (Dt) and a tire cross-sectional width (Wt) satisfy a following expression (1). The tread portion includes at least one circumferential groove extending in a tire circumferential direction. A rubber thickness at a groove bottom of the circumferential groove is 0.05 to 0.25 times a maximum thickness of the tread portion. The elastomer composition has a phase difference δ of 5.0×10.sup.−2π [rad] or less between a maximum value of strain and a maximum value of stress when repeatedly deformed at a temperature of 30 degrees Celsius and a frequency of 10 Hz in a dynamic viscoelasticity test;

1963.4≤(Dt.sup.2×π/4)/Wt≤2827.4  (1).

Rubber compositions and articles made from such rubber compositions that are based upon a cross-linkable elastomer composition, the cross-linkable elastomer composition comprising, per 100 parts by weight of rubber (phr) between 70 phr and 100 phr of an epoxidized rubber component selected from an epoxidized polybutadiene rubber (eBR), an epoxidized styrene-butadiene rubber (eSBR), or combinations thereof, wherein the epoxidized rubber component has a Tg of between −80° C. and −110° C. and an epoxy-function content of between 1 mol % and 25 mol %. Such rubber compositions may further include between 30 phr and 150 phr of a plasticizing resin, silica and a coupling agent that is a monohydroxysilane polysulfide having a form (Formula I) wherein radicals R, identical or different, are hydrocarbon groups, radicals R′, identical or different, are divalent linking groups and x is equal to or greater than 2.

##STR00001##

Rubber compositions and articles made from such rubber compositions that are based upon a cross-linkable elastomer composition, the cross-linkable elastomer composition comprising, per 100 parts by weight of rubber (phr) between 70 phr and 100 phr of an epoxidized rubber component selected from an epoxidized polybutadiene rubber (eBR), an epoxidized styrene-butadiene rubber (eSBR), or combinations thereof, wherein the epoxidized rubber component has a Tg of between −80° C. and −110° C. and an epoxy-function content of between 1 mol % and 25 mol %. Such rubber compositions may further include between 30 phr and 150 phr of a plasticizing resin, silica and a coupling agent that is a monohydroxysilane polysulfide having a form (Formula I) wherein radicals R, identical or different, are hydrocarbon groups, radicals R′, identical or different, are divalent linking groups and x is equal to or greater than 2.

##STR00001##

The present invention aims to provide tire rubber composition with significantly improved overall performance in terms of wet grip performance and fuel economy, and pneumatic tires including the rubber compositions. The tire rubber compositions of the present invention have a tan δ versus temperature curve whose peak tan δ and half width satisfy the following relationship (1): Peak tan δ/Half width ≥ 0.025 (1).

The present invention aims to provide tire rubber composition with significantly improved overall performance in terms of wet grip performance and fuel economy, and pneumatic tires including the rubber compositions. The tire rubber compositions of the present invention have a tan δ versus temperature curve whose peak tan δ and half width satisfy the following relationship (1): Peak tan δ/Half width ≥ 0.025 (1).

The present invention aims to provide tire rubber composition with significantly improved overall performance in terms of wet grip performance and fuel economy, and pneumatic tires including the rubber compositions. The tire rubber compositions of the present invention have a tan δ versus temperature curve whose peak tan δ and half width satisfy the following relationship (1): Peak tan δ/Half width ≥ 0.025 (1).

Disclosed herein are various cable gel seal arrangements and thermoplastic gels useful therein. The thermoplastic gels are prepared from a composition including a styrene triblock copolymer, a styrene diblock copolymer, an oil extender, and an additive selected from poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide), a C9 resin, poly(alpha-methylstyrene), a coumarone-indene resin, and combinations thereof, wherein the additive has a T.sub.g from about 95° C. to about 200° C. The thermoplastic gels advantageously exhibit low compression set.

Disclosed herein are various cable gel seal arrangements and thermoplastic gels useful therein. The thermoplastic gels are prepared from a composition including a styrene triblock copolymer, a styrene diblock copolymer, an oil extender, and an additive selected from poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide), a C9 resin, poly(alpha-methylstyrene), a coumarone-indene resin, and combinations thereof, wherein the additive has a T.sub.g from about 95° C. to about 200° C. The thermoplastic gels advantageously exhibit low compression set.

The present invention provides a pneumatic tire having improved rubber tensile strength, abrasion resistance, and wet-grip performance while maintaining good fuel economy. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire containing: a hydrogenated copolymer obtained by copolymerization of an aromatic vinyl compound and a conjugated diene compound, the hydrogenated copolymer having a degree of hydrogenation of the conjugated diene units of 75 mol % or more; and a resin having a softening point of 60° C. to 120° C., the rubber composition containing, per 100% by mass of a rubber component, 75% by mass or more of the hydrogenated copolymer, the rubber composition containing, relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, 1 to 30 parts by mass of the resin.

The present invention provides a pneumatic tire having improved rubber tensile strength, abrasion resistance, and wet-grip performance while maintaining good fuel economy. The present invention relates to a pneumatic tire containing: a hydrogenated copolymer obtained by copolymerization of an aromatic vinyl compound and a conjugated diene compound, the hydrogenated copolymer having a degree of hydrogenation of the conjugated diene units of 75 mol % or more; and a resin having a softening point of 60° C. to 120° C., the rubber composition containing, per 100% by mass of a rubber component, 75% by mass or more of the hydrogenated copolymer, the rubber composition containing, relative to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component, 1 to 30 parts by mass of the resin.