ROBERT JOE SIMMONS
Pilots at Fairview Ave, Hayward, CA

7802406, Sep 28, 2010

Oct 4, 2005

11/243744

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

E04H 1/00, E04B 5/00

52235, 522363, 52264, 522369

A skin-panel sub-frame panel having spaced, upper, lower and lateral edges, designed to occupy an upright plane adjacent the outside of a plural-story building frame, with a vertical dimension which is substantially the same as inter-floor story-height in the frame. The sub-frame includes (a) an elongate beam component defining the sub-frame's upper edge, and (b) plural interconnect-accommodating site structure sets formed in and distributed along the length of that component organized with (1) a first, upwardly facing set, and (2) a second inwardly facing set, which sets define orthogonally intersecting interconnect planes. Each first set accommodates a position-stabilizing, load-transferring inter-sub-frame interconnection between a pair of vertically next-adjacent sub-frames, and each second set accommodates a similar interconnection between a sub-frame and building infrastructure which is located within the mentioned building frame. Elongate lateral extension structures interconnect the panels with poured-in-place floor structure disposed within the associated building frame.

2007007, Mar 29, 2007

Sep 25, 2006

11/527281

Robert Simmons - Hayward CA, US

G06F 17/00

707104100

A system, and an associated methodology implemented by that system, for project component management in a defined-phase, plural-interrelated-component project. The methodology includes (a) establishing, for each of selected project components, a component-specific, graphical representation which is presentable on a display screen, (b) with respect to a selected project phase wherein phase-relevant components experience a status change from a first status to a second status, tracking the relevant project-progress, such status changes experienced by such components, and (c) utilizing a computer which is made aware of the establishing and tracking steps, providing, on a display screen, and in a sequential manner, selected component status-change progress via presenting on that screen at least one of (1) phase-completeness-relevant, incremental, defined spatial additive-association presentation, and (2) phase-completeness-relevant, incremental, defined spatial subtractive-dissociation presentation, of the graphical representations of such components.

7503151, Mar 17, 2009

Jan 2, 2004

10/750708

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

E04H 12/02, E04H 12/00

5274517, 527491, 521221, 521252, 521231

A building frame including a load-bearing portion which is defined by a pattern of interconnected, elongate, upright columns and laterally extending beams, with each column taking the form of an assembly of hollow, tubular column components, at least some of which each possesses a nominally open, upper-end utility region, or port, extending upwardly beyond the top of the frame's load-bearing portion. Each such port, which is useable in different ways during and after initial building construction, accommodates, under different circumstances, the selective reception of a construction-extension instrumentality drawn from the list consisting of (a) an installable/removable crane structure, (b) a column-like element provided for the addition of selected building superstructure, and (c) additional building infrastructure which is feedable downwardly through the port toward a selected elevation in a “completed” building.

7941985, May 17, 2011

May 30, 2008

12/156252

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

ConXtech, Inc. - Hayward CA

E04H 12/00

526551, 52854

A column/beam connection in a building frame, including an elongate column having faces which join through corners, an elongate beam having an end, and a full-moment nodal connection connecting the end of the beam to the column solely through a pair of next-adjacent corners in the column, with the beam end, as so connected, being spaced from the column face which lies between the mentioned pair of corners. The connection per se features (a) plural standoffs joined to and extending, one each, outwardly from the column's corners at a selected, common elevation located along the length of the column, and (b) a halo collar joined through a gravity-seat-and-lock, full-moment interface connection to each of the standoffs, and, as so joined, spaced by the standoffs from the column faces which lie between the column corners.

2006015, Jul 20, 2006

Mar 20, 2006

11/385604

Robert Simmons - Hayward CA, US

E04H 12/00

052653200

A building frame including a load-bearing portion which is defined by a pattern of interconnected, elongate, upright columns and laterally extending beams, with each column taking the form of an assembly of hollow, tubular column components, at least some of which each possesses a nominally open, upper-end utility region, or port, extending upwardly beyond the top of the frame's load-bearing portion. Each such port, which is useable in different ways during and after initial building construction, accommodates, under different circumstances, the selective reception of a construction-extension instrumentality drawn from the list consisting of (a) an installable/removable crane structure, (b) a column-like element provided for the addition of selected building superstructure, and (c) additional building infrastructure which is feedable downwardly through the port toward a selected elevation in a “completed” building.

7837084, Nov 23, 2010

May 30, 2008

12/156366

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

ConXtech, Inc. - Hayward CA

B23K 5/22, B23K 31/02, B23K 37/04

228102, 228 443, 228 491, 228 492, 228212, 219159

Adjustable, elongate, beam-offset jig structure for assisting in welding a pair of beam-end, column-interface components to the opposite ends of an elongate beam. The jig structure includes spaced, adjustable head-stock and tail-stock structures, each capable of holding such a component adjacent a beam end for adjustment to an infinite number of different, pre-weld angular-offset dispositions relative to such a beam end in order to accommodate planned horizontal and vertical beam offsets which will be encountered when such beams are installed in a building frame. A computer-controlled, robotic welder is preferably provided adjacent each end of the jig structure to implement appropriate welding when any and all offset angles have been jig-established.

7040069, May 9, 2006

Aug 30, 2004

10/931156

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

E04H 9/02

527291, 527408, 52644

An elongate, long-span transition beam employable between columns in a building frame structure. This transition beam includes (a) an elongate central portion having one, principal cross-sectional vertical depth, and (b) joined to the opposite ends of the central portion, a pair of elongate end portions each having a smaller cross-sectional vertical depth. These end portions may be formed with flange-modified reduced beam sections to act as “overload fuses”. The central and end portions join through size-differentiated, transverse cross section, transitional regions which are formed adjacent opposite ends, and as parts, of the central portion.

8161707, Apr 24, 2012

Apr 7, 2008

12/080898

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

ConXtech, Inc. - Hayward CA

E04H 12/00

526481, 526531, 526551, 403170, 403187, 403230, 403252

A family of beam cross-connections, including column/beam and beam/beam connections, between beams and columns in a building frame. Each connection within a cross-connection features (a) a pair of parallel-spaced, upright, planar plate components operatively associated with either a side of a column or a side of a beam, (b) an elongate, generally horizontal cross-connection beam including a generally upright, planar central web with an end which, with respect to a pair of such plate components, extends into the space that exists between those components, and (c) a structural relationship involving the plate components in a pair which accommodates (1) vertical-motion placement of a web end between the components, with (2) the automatic establishment thereby of correct relative, spatial, three-dimensional relationships and dispositions of the specific, associated column and/or beam elements so connected.

7441692, Oct 28, 2008

Sep 8, 2004

10/935764

Robert J. Simmons - Hayward CA, US

B23K 31/00

228212, 228 443, 522238

A method for stabilizing, in correctness, the transverse cross section of the end of an elongate structural beam during weld attachment to that end of a beam-end mounting component. This method includes the steps of (a) configurationally correcting and capturing the end transverse footprint of such a beam with an external structure to lock that footprint against subsequent configuration change, and (b), while performing that capturing step, weld-attaching the beam's end transverse footprint to the mentioned beam-end mounting component.