Patent ID: 7530201

Claim:
A node connector useful for interconnecting plural structural framing members at a node in a double-layer space frame having spaced major surfaces including substantially orthogonally disposed chord members defining the frame major surfaces and including struts in diagonal planes oblique to the frame major surfaces, the struts spacing the major surfaces from each other, the node connector comprising an elongate body having substantially constant transverse cross-sectional configuration along its length and defining an elongate open-ended passage having side walls and configured and sized to enable a first chord member to be engaged in and along the passage between the side walls at a first connection node in one major surface of the frame, and at least first and second pairs of spaced parallel diagonal surfaces associated with respective ones of two diagonal planes which intersect at a line parallel to the elongate extent of the passage, the diagonal surfaces in each pair thereof being parallel to a respective diagonal plane and between which can be connected ends of a pair of frame struts.