Patents by Inventor Steven E. Pryor
Steven E. Pryor has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12276100Abstract: A connector referred to herein as a knife plate, and the structural connections formed using the knife plate. The knife plate may have a first portion configured to affix to a first structural member, such as a vertical column. The knife plate may have a second portion configured to fit within a slot formed in a second structural member, such as a horizontal beam. The second structural member may be pinned to the knife plate using one or more dowels fit through the second structural member and the knife plate.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventor: Steven E. Pryor
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Patent number: 11987972Abstract: A moment frame is disclosed for a sloped roof construction. The moment frame includes a lateral bracing system having a high initial stiffness and including yield links capable of effectively dissipating energy generated within the lateral bracing system under lateral loads.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventor: Steven E. Pryor
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Publication number: 20240116207Abstract: A sealant spreader device fills voids around a drilled hole with sealant in glued-in-rod (GIR) structures. A liquid sealant may be applied to the base of a drilled hole. A sealant spreader device is then inserted to the base of the drilled hole, through the sealant. The sealant spreader device is then withdrawn while rotating. The sealant spreader device includes winged sections having contours which force the sealant radially outward toward walls of the hole, into any voids around the circumference of the drilled hole, and leaves a thin layer of sealant around the circumference of the drilled hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Emory L. Montague, Guy T. Anderson, Quentin Hibben, Corey Clark, Marlou Rodriguez, Randy Daudet, Robert Leichti, Paul McEntee, Michael Wesson, Donald Weems, Von Yang
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Patent number: 11795721Abstract: A structural fuse is disclosed including a fuse base and a fuse plate extending from the fuse base. The fuse plate may include a reduced diameter yield section configured to yield at loads on the structural fuse above a threshold. The reduced diameter yield section includes a pair of slots on either side of the yield section, which slots receive a pair of spacers. The spacers are integrally formed as part of the fuse plate, and remain attached to the fuse plate during fabrication of the structural fuse.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Timothy S. Ellis, Brandon Y. Chi, Samuel T. Hensen
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Publication number: 20220314485Abstract: A glued-in-rod wooden structure includes a prepared hole for sealing voids which may be open to the prepared hole. In one example, the prepared hole is filled with an expanding foam which at least partially fills and seals the voids open to the prepared hole. Thereafter, the prepared hole may be enlarged by drilling to its final diameter for receiving the rod. Any voids in the enlarged hole remain sealed by the expanding foam.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: October 6, 2022Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Emory L. Montague, Guy T. Anderson, Quentin Hibben, Corey Clark, Marlou Rodriguez, Randy Daudet, Robert Leichti, Paul McEntee
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Patent number: 11447970Abstract: A pinned base connector affixing a structural member to a foundation at one or more levels of a construction. The pinned base connector includes a baseplate affixed to the foundation. A column support plate is affixed to the baseplate via a pivot block. The pivot block is affixed to the baseplate to allow rotation of the pivot block relative to the baseplate about a first axis. The column support plate is affixed to the pivot block to allow rotation of the column support plate relative to the pivot block about a second axis orthogonal to the first. A column or other structural member may then be affixed to a surface of the column support plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventor: Steven E. Pryor
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Publication number: 20220259844Abstract: A moment frame is disclosed for a sloped roof construction. The moment frame includes a lateral bracing system having a high initial stiffness and including yield links capable of effectively dissipating energy generated within the lateral bracing system under lateral loads.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventor: Steven E. Pryor
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Patent number: 11401709Abstract: A sheet metal connector is provided for connecting a brick wall to a second structural member, the connector is received in the mortar joint of the brick wall and is connected to second structural member. The connector is provided with zones of controlled bending and controlled stiffness to allow for controlled bending of the connector in the field.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Inventors: Timothy M. Stauffer, Gary Lee Mochizuki, Steven E. Pryor, Benedict Ang, Jin-Jie Lin, Paul Howard Oellerich
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Patent number: 11346102Abstract: A lateral bracing system having high initial stiffness and including yield links capable of effectively dissipating stresses generated within the lateral bracing system under lateral loads.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Guy T. Anderson
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Patent number: 11299880Abstract: A lateral bracing system is disclosed for affixing a column to a beam in a construction. The lateral bracing system includes a pair of buckling restraint plates, one each affixed to a top and bottom flange of a beam. The lateral bracing system further includes at least one yield plate for each buckling restraint plate. Each yield plate includes a first end affixed to the column, and a second end affixed to the beam.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Badri Hiriyur
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Publication number: 20220042272Abstract: A pinned base connector affixing a structural member to a foundation at one or more levels of a construction. The pinned base connector includes a baseplate affixed to the foundation. A column support plate is affixed to the baseplate via a pivot block. The pivot block is affixed to the baseplate to allow rotation of the pivot block relative to the baseplate about a first axis. The column support plate is affixed to the pivot block to allow rotation of the column support plate relative to the pivot block about a second axis orthogonal to the first. A column or other structural member may then be affixed to a surface of the column support plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventor: Steven E. Pryor
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Publication number: 20220010547Abstract: A connector referred to herein as a knife plate, and the structural connections formed using the knife plate. The knife plate may have a first portion configured to affix to a first structural member, such as a vertical column. The knife plate may have a second portion configured to fit within a slot formed in a second structural member, such as a horizontal beam. The second structural member may be pinned to the knife plate using one or more dowels fit through the second structural member and the knife plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventor: Steven E. Pryor
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Patent number: 11203870Abstract: A one-piece structural fuse assembly is disclosed that is formed from a single piece of structural steel such as a beam. In embodiments, a first flange of the beam may form the fuse base, and a portion of the web of the beam may form the fuse plate. Additionally, a buckling restraint plate of the structural fuse assembly may be formed from a second flange of the beam, and the spacers of the structural fuse assembly may be formed from a portion of the web unused by the fuse plate. In examples, all of the components cut from the single piece of the beam are used in a single structural fuse assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Timothy S. Ellis, Brandon Y. Chi
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Publication number: 20210348414Abstract: A structural fuse is disclosed including a fuse base and a fuse plate extending from the fuse base. The fuse plate may include a reduced diameter yield section configured to yield at loads on the structural fuse above a threshold. The reduced diameter yield section includes a pair of slots on either side of the yield section, which slots receive a pair of spacers. The spacers are integrally formed as part of the fuse plate, and remain attached to the fuse plate during fabrication of the structural fuse.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Timothy S. Ellis, Brandon Y. Chi, Samuel T. Hensen
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Patent number: 11162260Abstract: A construction formed of column and a beam, where the beam has top and bottom flanges coupled to the column by a lateral bracing system, and a web between the top and bottom flanges. The lateral bracing system may include a column-mounted plate including a horizontal portion and a vertical portion, the vertical portion affixed to the column. The beam may be coped at top and bottom edges of the web to prevent binding of the beam flange with the column-mounted plate upon rotation of the beam relative to the column.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventor: Steven E. Pryor
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Patent number: 11072938Abstract: A structural fuse is disclosed including a fuse base and a fuse plate extending from the fuse base. The fuse plate may include a reduced diameter yield section configured to yield at loads on the structural fuse above a threshold. The reduced diameter yield section includes a pair of slots on either side of the yield section, which slots receive a pair of spacers. The spacers are integrally formed as part of the fuse plate, and remain attached to the fuse plate during fabrication of the structural fuse.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Timothy S. Ellis, Brandon Y. Chi, Samuel T. Hensen
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Publication number: 20210222429Abstract: A lateral bracing system having high initial stiffness and including yield links capable of effectively dissipating stresses generated within the lateral bracing system under lateral loads.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company, Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Guy T. Anderson
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Publication number: 20210079681Abstract: A structural fuse is disclosed including a fuse base and a fuse plate extending from the fuse base. The fuse plate may include a reduced diameter yield section configured to yield at loads on the structural fuse above a threshold. The reduced diameter yield section includes a pair of slots on either side of the yield section, which slots receive a pair of spacers. The spacers are integrally formed as part of the fuse plate, and remain attached to the fuse plate during fabrication of the structural fuse.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2019Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Timothy S. Ellis, Brandon Y. Chi, Samuel T. Hensen
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Publication number: 20200291653Abstract: A one-piece structural fuse assembly is disclosed that is formed from a single piece of structural steel such as a beam. In embodiments, a first flange of the beam may form the fuse base, and a portion of the web of the beam may form the fuse plate. Additionally, a buckling restraint plate of the structural fuse assembly may be formed from a second flange of the beam, and the spacers of the structural fuse assembly may be formed from a portion of the web unused by the fuse plate. In examples, all of the components cut from the single piece of the beam are used in a single structural fuse assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Applicant: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Timothy S. Ellis, Brandon Y. Chi
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Patent number: 10669718Abstract: A one-piece structural fuse assembly is disclosed that is formed from a single piece of structural steel such as a beam. In embodiments, a first flange of the beam may form the fuse base, and a portion of the web of the beam may form the fuse plate. Additionally, a buckling restraint plate of the structural fuse assembly may be formed from a second flange of the beam, and the spacers of the structural fuse assembly may be formed from a portion of the web unused by the fuse plate. In examples, all of the components cut from the single piece of the beam are used in a single structural fuse assembly.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Steven E. Pryor, Timothy S. Ellis, Brandon Y. Chi