Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mass spectrometer
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Application No.: US15750362Application Date: 2015-08-06
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Publication No.: US10229823B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Masaru Nishiguchi , Daisuke Okumura
- Applicant: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
- Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto-shi, Kyoto
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/072390 WO 20150806
- International Announcement: WO2017/022125 WO 20170209
- Main IPC: H01J49/00
- IPC: H01J49/00 ; H01J49/06 ; H01J49/40 ; H01J49/14 ; H01J49/24

Abstract:
A mass spectrometer includes a collision cell (16) converging electrode (18), accelerating electrode (19) and front-side ion lens system (20) which is an electrostatic lens, which are all located within a medium-vacuum region, and a partition wall (22) for separating the medium-vacuum region from a high-vacuum region and an ion transport optical system (23) located within the high-vacuum region. Ions which have been extracted and accelerated by an accelerating electric field created between an exit electrode (16a) and the accelerating electrode (19) are focused into a micro-sized ion-passage opening (19a) by the converging electrode (18). The accelerating electrode (19) blocks a stream of gas, thereby decreasing the chance of contact of ions with gas particles behind the electrode. Additionally, the accelerating electric field imparts a considerable amount of kinetic energy to the ions, thereby preventing the ions from being dispersed even when they come in contact with the gas particles.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180315588A1 MASS SPECTROMETER Public/Granted day:2018-11-01
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