Joseph M Simmons

US Patent:

7209870, Apr 24, 2007

Filed:

Oct 12, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/976187

Inventors:

Joseph V. Simmons - Highland UT, US
Benjamin L. Davis - Riverton UT, US
Alan L. Nicoll - Lehi UT, US

Assignee:

HVAC Holding Company, L.L.C. - American Fork UT

International Classification:

G06F 17/50

US Classification:

703 1, 703 6, 703 8, 705 26, 236 46 R

Abstract:

A system and method for designing an HVAC system using a database to manage values of properties corresponding to design elements. Elements include substantially all physical components and connections available for creating an HVAC system design. A user interface represents design elements arbitrarily selectable by a user and connectable to one another in a schematic to establish the HVAC system design. The system may provide, automatically, default values corresponding to the properties corresponding to the design elements. A user may select arbitrarily, from the design elements, an arbitrary number of selected design elements to be interconnected in the HVAC system design. A user may place and interconnect each arbitrary design element, while the system calculates, automatically, values of properties characterizing the arbitrary design elements; validating correctness of the interconnections and properties, calculating performance parameters, and providing drawings.

US Patent:

20070255536, Nov 1, 2007

Filed:

Apr 23, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/738994

Inventors:

Joseph Simmons - Highland UT, US
Benjamin Davis - Riverton UT, US
Alan Nicoll - Lehi UT, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/50

US Classification:

703001000

Abstract:

A system and method for designing an HVAC system using a database to manage values of properties corresponding to design elements. Elements include substantially all physical components and connections available for creating an HVAC system design. A user interface represents design elements arbitrarily selectable by a user and connectable to one another in a schematic to establish the HVAC system design. The system may provide, automatically, default values corresponding to the properties corresponding to the design elements. A user may select arbitrarily, from the design elements, an arbitrary number of selected design elements to be interconnected in the HVAC system design. A user may place and interconnect each arbitrary design element, while the system calculates, automatically, values of properties characterizing the arbitrary design elements; validating correctness of the interconnections and properties, calculating performance parameters, and providing drawings.

US Patent:

20090076779, Mar 19, 2009

Filed:

Nov 20, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/274664

Inventors:

Joseph V. Simmons - Highland UT, US
Benjamin L. Davis - Riverton UT, US
Alan L. Nicoll - Lehi UT, US

International Classification:

G06F 17/50

US Classification:

703 1

Abstract:

A method for designing an HVAC system. The method may comprising operating a computer program to create a virtual floor plan, detecting automatically, by the computer program, an enclosed space within the virtual floor plan, and calculating automatically, by the computer program after the detecting, a load corresponding to the enclosed space. The method may further include providing, by the computer program, a palette of HVAC components, instructing the computer program to assign at least one HVAC component from the palette to the enclosed space, and assigning automatically, by the computer program, a capacity to the at least one HVAC component, the capacity corresponding to the load calculated for the enclosed space.

US Patent:

41250176, Nov 14, 1978

Filed:

Jul 29, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/820249

Inventors:

Henry J. Dhuyvetter - Westminster CA
Paul D. Engelder - Rancho Palos Verdes CA
Joseph C. Simmons - Manhattan Beach CA

Assignee:

McDonnell Douglas Corporation - Long Beach CA

International Classification:

G01C 1902
G01C 2300

US Classification:

73178R

Abstract:

A system providing economical redundant strap-down inertial measurement capability in a space navigation system. By appropriate orientation of two-degree-of-freedom dry tuned rotor gyros, the system is able to achieve complete redundancy utilizing only three gyro units. With this orientation, both orthogonal and skewed rate data are available. Not only are the necessary computations materially simplified, but this system also provides the necessary conditions for failure detection and isolation.