Automated mass spectrometer analysis system

Details Automated mass spectrometer analysis system Automated mass spectrometer analysis system

1979-10-06

1982-02-02

Dixon, Harold A.

Radiant energy

Ionic separation or analysis

250282, 250286, 250290, B01D 5944

Patent

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043141560

ABSTRACT:
An automated mass spectrometer analysis system is disclosed, in which samples are automatically processed in a sample processor and converted into volatilizable samples, or their characteristic volatilizable derivatives. Each volatilizable sample is sequentially volatilized and analyzed in a double focusing mass spectrometer, whose output is in the form of separate ion beams all of which are simultaneously focused in a focal plane. Each ion beam is indicative of a different sample component or different fragments of one or more sample components and the beam intensity is related to the relative abundance of the sample component. The system includes an electro-optical ion detector which automatically and simultaneously converts the ion beams, first into electron beams which in turn produce a related image which is transferred to the target of a vilicon unit. The latter converts the images into electrical signals which are supplied to a data processor, whose output is a list of the components of the analyzed sample and their abundances. The system is under the control of a master control unit, which in addition to monitoring and controlling various power sources, controls the automatic operation of the system under expected and some unexpected conditions and further protects various critical parts of the system from damage due to particularly abnormal conditions.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3824390 (1974-07-01), Magyar
patent: 4008388 (1977-02-01), McLafferty

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