Patents by Inventor Walid M. Hicham Naja

Walid M. Hicham Naja 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).

  • Moment-resistant building frame structure componentry and method
    Patent number: 7021020
    Abstract: Column-beam building frame structure, wherein columns and beams are interconnected to distribute and share all lateral loads through collars that encircle columns at the nodal points of attachments between columns and beams. Each collar includes inner and outer components which seat, and gravity-lock together, during frame construction, and which also to offer a certain amount of immediate moment resistance to lateral loads. Tension bolt and nut assemblies lock the inner and outer collar components together, and with these assemblies in place, the collars (which circumsurround the beams) function to deliver beam moment loads as plural-position, angularly distributed compression loads to different side regions of columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2006
    Assignee: SMRSF Inc.
    Inventors: Robert J. Simmons, Walid M. Hicham Naja
  • Moment-resistant building frame structure componentry and method
    Patent number: 6837016
    Abstract: Column-beam building frame structure, wherein columns and beams are interconnected to distribute and share all lateral loads through collars that encircle columns at the nodal points of attachments between columns and beams. Each collar includes inner and outer components which seat, and gravity-lock together, during frame construction, and which also to offer a certain amount of immediate moment resistance to lateral loads. Tension bolt and nut assemblies lock the inner and outer collar components together, and with these assemblies in place, the collars (which circumsurround the beams) function to deliver beam moment loads as plural-position, angularly distributed compression loads to different side regions of columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Inventors: Robert J. Simmons, Walid M. Hicham Naja, Constantine J. Shuhaibar
  • Moment-resistant building frame structure componentry and method
    Publication number: 20030041549
    Abstract: Column-beam building frame structure, wherein columns and beams are interconnected to distribute and share all lateral loads through collars that encircle columns at the nodal points of attachments between columns and beams. Each collar includes inner and outer components which seat, and gravity-lock together, during frame construction, and which also to offer a certain amount of immediate moment resistance to lateral loads. Tension bolt and nut assemblies lock the inner and outer collar components together, and with these assemblies in place, the collars (which circumsurround the beams) function to deliver beam moment loads as plural-position, angularly distributed compression loads to different side regions of columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Publication date: March 6, 2003
    Inventors: Robert J. Simmons, Walid M. Hicham Naja, Constantine J. Shuhaibar