Patent 7393899 was granted and assigned to Bridgestone on July, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
As a rubber composition having an elasticity further increased as compared with the conventional rubber composition while preventing the lowering of the fracture resistance, there is provided a rubber composition comprising a rubber component of at least one of natural rubber and synthetic diene rubbers and a phenolic resin compounded therein and represented by the following formula (I):