Radiant energy – Ionic separation or analysis
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-05
2006-09-05
Wells, Nikita (Department: 2881)
Radiant energy
Ionic separation or analysis
C250S282000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07102126
ABSTRACT:
A mass spectrometer is disclosed wherein a relatively energetic pulse of ions having a relatively narrow spread of mass to charge ratios are ejected from a quadrupole ion trap and received in an ion trap upstream of a Time of Flight mass analyser. The ions are collisionally cooled within the ion trap and are pulsed out of the ion trap and into an extraction region of the Time of Flight mass analyser without substantially exciting the ions. This enables improved operation with the Time of Flight mass analyser. According to another embodiment, parent ions are fragmented and the resulting fragment ions are stored in two ion traps having different low mass cut-offs. The trapping system enables MS/MS experiments to be performed with a very high duty cycle.
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Bateman Robert Harold
Brown Jeff
Diederiks & Whitelaw PLC
Johnston Phillip A.
Micromass UK Limited
Wells Nikita
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