Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Mass spectrometer
- Patent Title (中): 质谱仪
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Application No.: US12594450Application Date: 2008-01-17
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Publication No.: US08134123B2Publication Date: 2012-03-13
- Inventor: Masaru Nishiguchi , Yoshihiro Ueno , Daisuke Okumura , Hiroto Itoi
- Applicant: Masaru Nishiguchi , Yoshihiro Ueno , Daisuke Okumura , Hiroto Itoi
- Applicant Address: JP Kyoto
- Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
- Current Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kyoto
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JPWOX/JP2007/000417 20070417
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/000043 WO 20080117
- International Announcement: WO2008/129751 WO 20081030
- Main IPC: H01J49/42
- IPC: H01J49/42

Abstract:
One virtual rod electrode is composed by a plurality of electrode plane plates arranged in the ion optical axis direction, and four virtual rod electrodes are arranged around the ion optical axis to form a virtual quadrupole rod type ion transport optical system (30). In one virtual rod electrode, the interval between the adjacent electrode plane plates is set to be large in the anterior area (30A) and small in the posterior area (30B). As the interval between electrodes becomes larger, high-order multipole field components increase and therefore the ion acceptance is increased, which enables an efficient acceptance of ions coming from the previous stage. On the other hand, if the interval between electrodes is small, the quadrupole field components relatively increase and the ion beam's convergence is improved. Therefore, ions can be effectively introduced into a quadrupole mass filter for example in the subsequent stage, which contributes to the enhancement of the mass analysis' sensitivity and accuracy.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100116979A1 MASS SPECTROMETER Public/Granted day:2010-05-13
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