US 12,247,389 B2
Hollow structural section connector and methods of use of same
Nelson Del Rio, Redding, CA (US); Timothy Bryce Miller, Sacramento, CA (US); Przemyslaw Olszewski, Portland, OR (US); Phong Anh Le, Culver City, CA (US); Roger Paul Young, Newport Beach, CA (US); Dayu Li, San Jose, CA (US); and Faizan Sidiqui, Newport Beach, CA (US)
Assigned to Blokable, LLC, Sacramento, CA (US)
Filed by Blokable, LLC, Sacramento, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,880.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/246,662, filed on Sep. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0121784 A1, Apr. 20, 2023
Int. Cl. E04B 1/24 (2006.01)
CPC E04B 1/2403 (2013.01) [E04B 2001/2415 (2013.01); E04B 2001/2457 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A bracket comprising:
a first wing having a first inner surface and a first outer surface that is opposite the first inner surface;
a second wing having a second inner surface and a second outer surface that is opposite the second inner surface; and
a bridge that extends from the first inner surface to the second inner surface thereby coupling the first wing to the second wing such that: 1) the first inner surface is normal to a first direction, and 2) the first inner surface is parallel to the second inner surface, the bridge including a front edge and a rear edge opposite the front edge, the front edge forming a recess that extends into the bridge towards the rear edge along a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the recess terminates within the bridge prior to reaching the rear edge,
wherein the front edge is a first front edge, the rear edge is a first rear edge, the first wing includes a second front edge and a second rear edge opposite the second front edge, at least a portion of the first front edge is coplanar with the second front edge, and an entirety of the first rear edge is offset from the second rear edge,
wherein the bridge has a first depth measured from the first front edge to the first rear edge along the second direction, the first wing has a second depth measured from the second front edge to the second rear edge along the second direction, and the second depth is greater than the first depth,
wherein the first depth varies as measured at different locations between the first wing and the second wing,
wherein the first depth has a maximum value at a location where the bridge intersects the first wing, the first depth has a minimum value at a location where the recess is closest to the rear edge, and
wherein the minimum value of the first depth is located halfway between the first wing and the second wing.