Invention Grant
- Patent Title: RF power supply for a mass spectrometer
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Application No.: US14677857Application Date: 2015-04-02
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Publication No.: US09472385B2Publication Date: 2016-10-18
- Inventor: Alexander A. Makarov , Eduard V. Denisov , Alexander Kholomeev
- Applicant: Thermo Finnigan LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Thermo Finnigan LLC
- Current Assignee: Thermo Finnigan LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agent Charles B. Katz
- Priority: GB0413852.5 20040621
- Main IPC: H01J49/42
- IPC: H01J49/42 ; H01J49/26 ; B01D59/44 ; H01J49/00 ; H01J49/36 ; H01J49/02

Abstract:
The present invention provides a radio frequency (RF) power supply in a mass spectrometer. The power supply provides an RF signal to electrodes of a storage device to create a trapping field. The RF field is usually collapsed prior to ion ejection. In an illustrative embodiment the RF power supply includes a RF signal supply; a coil arranged to receive the signal provided by the RF signal supply and to provide an output RF signal for supply to electrodes of an ion storage device; and a shunt including a switch operative to switch between a first open position and a second closed position in which the shunt shorts the coil output.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150214019A1 RF POWER SUPPLY FOR A MASS SPECTROMETER Public/Granted day:2015-07-30
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