Patents by Inventor Thomas Couch
Thomas Couch 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: 11966222Abstract: An autonomous floor cleaner includes multiple occupiable space sensors for position and/or proximity sensing. Data from the occupiable space sensors can be used determine areas of occupiable space in proximity to the autonomous floor cleaner. Methods for exiting a trapped condition, obstacle avoidance, and path planning are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: BISSELL Inc.Inventors: David VanKampen, Sherman Rolf Couch, Jared Thomas
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Patent number: 11920347Abstract: A joist assembly system that is structured for dynamic retrieval of components, dynamic and precise positioning and location of retrieved components, assembly of the components to form a joist, and delivery of the assembled joist. The joist assembly system has a plurality of material handling systems, a plurality of welding systems, and a rigging table system. The material handling systems are structured to load and position the components such as chords and webs onto the rigging table. The rigging table in turn supports the chords or webs. Subsequently, the plurality of welding systems weld the webs to the chords to form the joist.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NUCOR CORPORATIONInventors: Jason Alan Freidenberger, Joseph Patrick Cagle, Christopher Ray Couch, Richard Thomas Erickson, Travis Marshall Fuhrman, John Lyman Hale, Matthew Glenn Hire, Christopher William Martin, James E. Ogburn, III, Jonathan Pressley Poston, Peter Michael Puglisi, Phillip Murray Sylvester, Jr., Adam Taylor Watkins
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Publication number: 20230296270Abstract: A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: MJC, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Metzger, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Kelly Gene Sprayberry
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Patent number: 11555618Abstract: A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: MJC, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Metzger, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Kelly Gene Sprayberry
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Publication number: 20210123614Abstract: A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: MJC, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Metzger, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Kelly Gene Sprayberry
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Patent number: 10890341Abstract: A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: MJC, Inc.Inventors: Edward H. Metzger, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Kelly Gene Sprayberry
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Publication number: 20190032930Abstract: A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Edward H. Metzger, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Kelly Gene Sprayberry
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Patent number: 10161640Abstract: An air conditioning that includes a housing. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: MJC, Inc.Inventors: Kelly Gene Sprayberry, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Edward H. Metzger
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Patent number: 10088178Abstract: A method for air conditioning including installing an air conditioning unit at a desired location. The air conditioning unit includes a housing that has air supply inlets and exhaust air outlets. The housing encloses a mode control unit that switches a zone coil associated with a zone from a cooling mode to a heating mode by switching from a cooling medium to a heating medium flowing through the zone coil. The zone coil receives the heating or cooling medium and conditions incoming air from a supply fan to be exhausted in a zone associated with the zone coil. A variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit provides a cooling medium or a heating medium at varying rates to control a temperature of a zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: MJC, Inc.Inventors: Kelly Gene Sprayberry, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Edward H. Metzger
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Publication number: 20170138619Abstract: Described herein are technologies for an enclosed, modular multi-zone variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system. In some implementations, the enclosed, modular multi-zone variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system may include a housing. The housing may have enclosed therein a variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit, a mode control unit, a return/exhaust fan, and a supply fan. The enclosed, modular multi-zone variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system may further include one or more units to receive a heating or cooling medium from the variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit to cool or heat air going to two or more zones. The enclosed, modular multi-zone variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system may be a modular unit transportable and installable as a single unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Kelly Gene Sprayberry, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Edward H. Metzger
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Publication number: 20160327287Abstract: Described herein are technologies for an enclosed, modular multi-zone variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system. In some implementations, the enclosed, modular multi-zone variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system may include a housing. The housing may have enclosed therein a variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit, a mode control unit, a return/exhaust fan, and a supply fan. The enclosed, modular multi-zone variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system may further include one or more units to receive a heating or cooling medium from the variable refrigerant flow cooling/heating unit to cool or heat air going to two or more zones. The enclosed, modular multi-zone variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system may be a modular unit transportable and installable as a single unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Kelly Gene Sprayberry, Joel John Williams, Charles Thomas Couch, Edward H. Metzger
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Publication number: 20070233946Abstract: A network-based storage system comprises one or more block-level storage servers that connect to, and provide disk storage for, one or more host computers (“hosts”) over logical network connections (preferably TCP/IP sockets). In one embodiment, each host can maintain one or more socket connections to each storage server, over which multiple I/O operations may be performed concurrently in a non-blocking manner. The physical storage of a storage server may optionally be divided into multiple partitions, each of which may be independently assigned to a particular host or to a group of hosts. When a host initially connects to a storage server in one embodiment, the storage server initially authenticates the host, and then notifies the host of the ports that may be used to establish data connections and of the partitions assigned to that host.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2007Publication date: October 4, 2007Inventors: Douglas Jewett, Adam Radford, Bradley Strand, Jeffrey Chung, Joel Jacobson, Robert Haigler, Rod Thompson, Thomas Couch