US 12,188,220 B2
Self-storage facility, fabrication, and methodology
David Wayne Ledoux, Houston, TX (US); and Richard Waldon Stockton, Jr., Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to GS LICENSECO LLC, Raleigh, NC (US)
Appl. No. 17/761,583
Filed by GS LICENSECO LLC, Raleigh, NC (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 18, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/051602
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 17, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/055829, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/902,347, filed on Sep. 18, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0341156 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. E04B 1/348 (2006.01); E04H 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC E04B 1/34861 (2013.01) [E04B 1/3483 (2013.01); E04H 3/00 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A self-storage facility comprising:
a first set of load bearing modular units (LBMUs) aligned along a same first horizontal plane;
wherein the first set has a plurality of rows of LBMUs;
wherein each LBMU in each row in the plurality of rows of LBMU is positioned in a side-to-side relationship with another LBMU, in a corresponding row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs;
wherein each LBMU in each row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs is positioned in at least one end-to-end relationship with another LBMU in an adjacent row of a plurality of rows of LBMUs;
wherein each of the first set of LBMUs comprises four sidewalls;
a first passageway through a first sidewall and a second sidewall in a majority of the LBMUs in a first row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs, wherein the first passageway is transverse to a major axis of each LBMU in the first row;
a second passageway through a first sidewall and a second sidewall in a majority of the LBMUs in a second row in the plurality of rows of LBMUs, wherein the second passageway is transverse to a major axis of each LBMU in the second row; and
a coupling passageway coupling the first passageway to the second passageway, the coupling passageway along a major axis of and through an interior of a first LBMU and a second LBMU, wherein the first LBMU and the second LBMU are positioned in an end-to-end relationship.