Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ion mobility mass spectrometer and method of performing ion mobility mass spectrometry
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Application No.: US16335128Application Date: 2017-09-19
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Publication No.: US10852275B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: Keith George Richardson , Martin Raymond Green , David J. Langridge
- Applicant: MICROMASS UK LIMITED
- Applicant Address: GB Wilmslow
- Assignee: MICROMASS UK LIMITED
- Current Assignee: MICROMASS UK LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB Wilmslow
- Priority: GB1616017.8 20160920; GB1616405.5 20160927
- International Application: PCT/GB2017/052775 WO 20170919
- International Announcement: WO2018/055347 WO 20180329
- Main IPC: G01N27/62
- IPC: G01N27/62 ; H01J49/40

Abstract:
A method of ion mobility spectrometry is disclosed comprising: transmitting a plurality of ions to an ion mobility separator 6; modulating the introduction of the ions into the ion mobility separator 6 at a first modulation frequency; separating the ions that enter the ion mobility separator 6 according to ion mobility; detecting ions that have exited the ion mobility separator with a detector of a time of flight mass analyser 8; varying the first modulation frequency with time; recording the intensity of the ion signal output from the detector to produce recorded data; modulating the recorded data as a function of the time that the data was recorded and at a second modulation frequency, wherein the second modulation frequency is varied as a function of the time that the data was recorded; and determining, from the variation in intensity of the ion signal in the modulated data as a function of the second modulation frequency, the ion mobilities of the ions that have been detected.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190212297A1 ION MOBILITY MASS SPECTROMETER AND METHOD OF PERFORMING ION MOBILITY MASS SPECTROMETRY Public/Granted day:2019-07-11
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