| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 250294000 | Static field-type ion path-bending selecting means | 31 |
| 20090159796 | Quadrupole FAIMS Apparatus - A combined rf-only/FAIMS apparatus is disclosed for use in mass spectrometry and other applications. The disclosed apparatus includes a plurality of curved electrodes arranged around a central ion transmission channel. FAIMS functionality is removed electronically when not desired by application of radio frequency (rf) waveforms to the curved electrodes. | 06-25-2009 |
| 20100181475 | ELECTROSTATIC TRAP - An electrostatic trap such as an orbitrap is disclosed, with an electrode structure. An electrostatic trapping field of the form U′(r, φ, z) is generated to trap ions within the trap so that they undergo isochronous oscillations. The trapping field U′(r, φ, z) is the result of a perturbation W to an ideal field U(r, φ, z) which, for example, is hyperlogarithmic in the case of an orbitrap. The perturbation W may be introduced in various ways, such as by distorting the geometry of the trap so that it no longer follows an equipotential of the ideal field U(r, φ, z), or by adding a distortion field (either electric or magnetic). The magnitude of the perturbation is such that at least some of the trapped ions have an absolute phase spread of more than zero but less than 2 π radians over an ion detection period T | 07-22-2010 |
| 20100264308 | Electrostatic Dispersion Lenses and Ion Beam Dispersion Methods - An EDL includes a case surface and at least one electrode surface. The EDL is configured to receive through the EDL a plurality of ion beams, to generate an electrostatic field between the one electrode surface and either the case surface or another electrode surface, and to increase the separation between the beams using the field. Other than an optional mid-plane intended to contain trajectories of the beams, the electrode surface or surfaces do not exhibit a plane of symmetry through which any beam received through the EDL must pass. In addition or in the alternative, the one electrode surface and either the case surface or the other electrode surface have geometries configured to shape the field to exhibit a less abrupt entrance and/or exit field transition in comparison to another electrostatic field shaped by two nested, one-quarter section, right cylindrical electrode surfaces with a constant gap width. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100320380 | CHARGED PARTICLE SEPARATION APPARATUS AND CHARGED PARTICLE BOMBARDMENT APPARATUS - A charged particle separation apparatus that separates ionized gas clusters is disclosed. The charged particle separation apparatus includes an electric field applying part including two electrodes across which electric voltage is applied in order to generate electric field between the two electrodes thereby deflecting a trajectory of the ionized gas cluster, the electrodes including one of an opening and a void; and a plate opening that allows the ionized gas cluster whose trajectory is deflected by the electric field applying part to go therethrough. | 12-23-2010 |
| 20110133079 | MASS SPECTROMETER ION GUIDE PROVIDING AXIAL FIELD, AND METHOD - An ion guide includes a plurality of rods, arranged about an axis that extends lengthwise from one end to the other of the guide. The rods guide ions in a guide region along and about the axis. A conductive casing surrounds the rods. The casing and the rods are geometrically arranged to produce an axial electric field along the axis. Specifically, the geometry is such that a first constant applied DC voltage (U | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110233397 | RADIO-FREQUENCY-FREE HYBRID ELECTROSTATIC/MAGNETOSTATIC CELL FOR TRANSPORTING, TRAPPING, AND DISSOCIATING IONS IN MASS SPECTROMETERS - Mass spectrometry cells include one or more interleaved magnetostatic and electrostatic lenses. In some examples, the electrostatic lenses are based on electrical potentials applied to magnetostatic lens pole pieces. In other alternatives, the electrostatic lenses can include conductive apertures. Applied voltages can be selected to trap or transport charged particles, and photon sources, gas sources, ion sources, and electron sources can be provided for various dissociation processes. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20120248308 | ELECTROSTATIC TRAP - An electrostatic trap such as an orbitrap is disclosed, with an electrode structure. An electrostatic trapping field of the form U′(r, φ, z) is generated to trap ions within the trap so that they undergo isochronous oscillations. The trapping field U′(r, φ, z) is the result of a perturbation W to an ideal field U(r, φ, z) which, for example, is hyperlogarithmic in the case of an orbitrap. The perturbation W may be introduced in various ways, such as by distorting the geometry of the trap so that it no longer follows an equipotential of the ideal field U(r, φ, z), or by adding a distortion field (either electric or magnetic). The magnitude of the perturbation is such that at least some of the trapped ions have an absolute phase spread of more than zero but less than 2 π radians over an ion detection period T | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130234018 | Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer - Provided is a quadrupole mass spectrometer including direct-current voltage sources having response characteristics which ensure that the response time of the direct-current voltage will be shorter than the period of time required for an ion having the highest mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) among the ions introduced into a quadrupole mass filter to pass through this filter. Main rod electrodes and pre-rod electrodes are connected to each other via primary differentiation circuits. Thus, in the transient state of the voltage change due to the switching of the mass-to-charge ratio, among the ions entering the quadrupole mass filter, ions having low m/z values can be removed by a pre-electrode unit, and ions having high m/z values can be removed by a main electrode unit. Accordingly, a large amount of ions can be prevented from passing through the filter and entering an ion detector. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20160104609 | Mass Analyser and Method of Mass Analysis - An electrostatic ion trap for mass analysis includes a first array of electrodes and a second array of electrodes, spaced from the first array of electrode. The first and second arrays of electrodes may be planar arrays formed by parallel strip electrodes or by concentric, circular or part-circular electrically conductive rings. The electrodes of the arrays are supplied with substantially the same pattern of voltage whereby the distribution of electrical potential in the space between the arrays is such as to reflect ions isochronously in a flight direction causing them to undergo periodic, oscillatory motion in the space, focused substantially mid-way between the arrays. Amplifier circuitry is used to detect image current having frequency components related to the mass-to-charge ratio of ions undergoing the periodic, oscillatory motion. | 04-14-2016 |
| 20160172172 | HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER UNIT AND MASS SPECTROMETER USING THE POWER UNIT | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160189947 | ELECTRODE RING FOR ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER, ION TRANSFER TUBE AND ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETER - The present disclosure provides an electrode ring for an ion mobility spectrometer, an ion transfer tube and an ion mobility spectrometer. Wherein, the electrode ring has an outer edge thickness larger than its inner edge thickness in an axial direction. Through the present disclosure, in the structure of the electrode ring, the uniformity of the electric filed inside the transfer tube can be significantly improved. In the present disclosure, the smooth ion transfer zone inside the transfer tube can be enlarged. The ion transfer tube formed of electrode rings each having an inner edge thickness the same as the outer edge thickness in the axial direction apparently has poorer uniformity of electrode field than the ion transfer tube formed of electrode rings each having the same outer edge thickness but an inner edger thickness smaller than the outer edge thickness in the axial direction. | 06-30-2016 |
| 250295000 | With variable beam shifting field means | 3 |
| 20090108198 | BROAD RIBBON BEAM ION IMPLANTER ARCHITECTURE WITH HIGH MASS-ENERGY CAPABILITY - A ribbon ion beam system, comprising an ion source configured to generate a ribbon ion beam along a first beam path, wherein the ribbon ion beam enters a mass analysis magnet having a height dimension (h | 04-30-2009 |
| 20130256527 | HYBRID ELECTROSTATIC LENS FOR IMPROVED BEAM TRANSMISSION - A hybrid electrostatic lens is used to shape and focus an ion beam. The hybrid electrostatic lens comprises an Einzel lens defined by an elongated tube having a first and second ends and a first electrode disposed at the first end and a second electrode disposed at the second end. The elongated tube is configured to receive a voltage bias to create an electric field within the Einzel lens as the ion beam travels through the hybrid electrostatic lens. The hybrid electrostatic lens further includes a quadrupole lens having a first stage and a second stage, where each of the stages is defined by a plurality of electrodes turned 90° with respect to each other to define a pathway in the Z direction through the elongated tube. The Einzel lens focuses the ion beam and the quadrupole lens shapes the ion beam. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20160189917 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR BEAM ANGLE ADJUSTMENT IN ION IMPLANTERS WITH BEAM DECELARATION - An ion implantation system employs a mass analyzer for both mass analysis and angle correction. An ion source generates an ion beam along a beam path. A mass analyzer is located downstream of the ion source that performs mass analysis and angle correction on the ion beam. A resolving aperture within an aperture assembly is located downstream of the mass analyzer component and along the beam path. The resolving aperture has a size and shape according to a selected mass resolution and a beam envelope of the ion beam. An angle measurement system is located downstream of the resolving aperture and obtains an angle of incidence value of the ion beam. A control system derives a magnetic field adjustment for the mass analyzer according to the angle of incidence value of the ion beam from the angle measurement system. | 06-30-2016 |
| 250296000 | Plural diverse-type static path-bending fields | 6 |
| 20090014646 | Method and apparatus for incorporating electrostatic concentrators and/or ion mobility separators with Raman, IR, UV, XRF, LIF and LIBS spectroscopy and /or other spectroscopic techniques - The present invention provides a novel approach for reliably and accurately detecting and identifying airborne particles. This is done by providing a novel system which incorporates electrostatic concentrators and/or ion mobility separators with Raman, IR, UV, XRF, LIF and LIBS spectroscopy and/or other spectroscopic techniques. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090014647 | Correction of Time of Flight Separation in Hybrid Mass Spectrometers - The present invention pertains to a method and apparatus which increases the efficiency with which ions are transported from a first ion trap to a second ion trap, and subsequently trapped in the second ion trap. In one aspect the invention, increased efficiency takes the form or enabling ions of both high and low mass to charge ratios to be trapped in the second ion trap at substantially the same time, or at least within a relatively small window of time. This can be achieved by minimizing the undesirable time-of-flight separation by the high and low mass to charge ratio ions as they are transported from a first ion trap to the second ion trap. This minimization can be realized by adjusting the potential energy applied to ion transfer optics disposed between the two ion traps. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20120097847 | ION DETECTOR FOR MASS SPECTROMETRY, METHOD FOR DETECTING ION, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING ION DETECTOR - The present disclosure provides an ion detector for improving the effect of electric field for pulling in an ion to be detected to a first-stage electrode of a secondary electron multiplier (SEM), and improving the effect of a stray light reduction. In one example embodiment, an ion detector includes a SEM, and a lead-in electrode for pulling in an ion to a first-stage electrode side of the SEM. At least one of the area of the lead-in electrode and a potential difference between the lead-in electrode and neighboring electrodes of the lead-in electrode, the neighboring electrode being an electrode not of the SEM, is set so that the light amount of internal-stray light generated inside the detector entering the first-stage electrode is not more than that of external-stray light generated outside the detector entering the first-stage electrode, when an ion is introduced into the detector. | 04-26-2012 |
| 20120211651 | Mass Spectrometer and Method for Direct Measurement of Isotope Ratios - An isotope ratio mass spectrometer is described that obtains direct ratios of atomic isotopes in a monoenergetic beam of negative ions by passing them through a collision cell at specific kinetic energies for which the relative production of positive ions from the negative ions is calculable from the isotopic masses. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20170236698 | ION OPTICAL APPARATUS AND MASS SPECTROMETER | 08-17-2017 |
| 250297000 | For causing complex ion path | 1 |
| 20090078866 | MASS SPECTROMETER AND ELECTRIC FIELD SOURCE FOR MASS SPECTROMETER - An electric field source for a mass spectrometer and a mass spectrometer are described. | 03-26-2009 |
| 250298000 | Magnetic field path-bending means | 11 |
| 20090261248 | ION BEAM APPARATUS AND METHOD EMPLOYING MAGNETIC SCANNING - A multipurpose ion implanter beam line configuration comprising a mass analyzer magnet followed by a magnetic scanner and magnetic collimator combination that introduce bends to the beam path, the beam line constructed for enabling implantation of common monatomic dopant ion species cluster ions, the beam line configuration having a mass analyzer magnet defining a pole gap of substantial width between ferromagnetic poles of the magnet and a mass selection aperture, the analyzer magnet sized to accept an ion beam from a slot-form ion source extraction aperture of at least about 80 mm height and at least about 7 mm width, and to produce dispersion at the mass selection aperture in a plane corresponding to the width of the beam, the mass selection aperture capable of being set to a mass-selection width sized to select a beam of the cluster ions of the same dopant species but incrementally differing molecular weights, the mass selection aperture also capable of being set to a substantially narrower mass-selection width and the analyzer magnet having a resolution at the mass selection aperture sufficient to enable selection of a beam of monatomic dopant ions of substantially a single atomic or molecular weight, the magnetic scanner and magnetic collimator being constructed to successively bend the ion beam in the same sense, which is in the opposite sense to that of the bend introduced by the analyzer magnet of the beam line. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100116983 | MASS ANALYSIS MAGNET FOR A RIBBON BEAM - A ribbon beam mass analyzer having a first and second solenoid coils and steel yoke arrangement. Each of the solenoid coils have a substantially “racetrack” configuration defining a space through which an ion ribbon beam travels. The solenoid coils are spaced apart along the direction of travel of the ribbon beam. Each of the solenoid coils generates a uniform magnetic field to accommodate mass resolution of wide ribbon beams to produce a desired image of ions generated from an ion source. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20110006204 | HIGH DENSITY FARADAY CUP ARRAY OR OTHER OPEN TRENCH STRUCTURES AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A detector array and method for making the detector array. The detector array includes a substrate including a plurality of trenches formed therein, and a plurality of collectors electrically isolated from each other, formed on the walls of the trenches, and configured to collect charged particles incident on respective ones of the collectors and to output from the collectors signals indicative of charged particle collection. In the detector array, adjacent ones of the plurality of trenches are disposed in a staggered configuration relative to one another. The method forms in a substrate a plurality of trenches across a surface of the substrate such that adjacent ones of the trenches are in a staggered sequence relative to one another, forms in the plurality of trenches a plurality of collectors, and connects a plurality of electrodes respectively to the collectors. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110089321 | ION BEAM APPARATUS AND METHOD EMPLOYING MAGNETIC SCANNING - A multipurpose ion implanter beam line configuration comprising a mass analyzer magnet followed by a magnetic scanner and magnetic collimator combination that introduce bends to the beam path, the beam line constructed for enabling implantation of common monatomic dopant ion species cluster ions, the beam line configuration having a mass analyzer magnet defining a pole gap of substantial width between ferromagnetic poles of the magnet and a mass selection aperture, the analyzer magnet sized to accept an ion beam from a slot-form ion source extraction aperture of at least about 80 mm height and at least about 7 mm width, and to produce dispersion at the mass selection aperture in a plane corresponding to the width of the beam, the mass selection aperture capable of being set to a mass-selection width sized to select a beam of the cluster ions of the same dopant species but incrementally differing molecular weights, the mass selection aperture also capable of being set to a substantially narrower mass-selection width and the analyzer magnet having a resolution at the selection aperture sufficient to enable selection of a beam of monatomic dopant ions of substantially a single atomic or molecular weight, the magnetic scanner and magnetic collimator being constructed to successively bend the ion beam in the same sense, which is in the opposite sense to that of the bend introduced by the analyzer magnet of the beam line. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20120032075 | MAGNETIC ACHROMATIC MASS SPECTROMETER WITH DOUBLE FOCUSING - An achromatic magnetic mass spectrometer, for example of the SIMS type with double focusing, comprises means for canceling the four aberrations of the second order, and means for canceling the off-axis achromatism and for modulating the dispersion in mass. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120168622 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING A MASS ANALYZED ION BEAM - An implantation system includes an ion extraction plate having a set of apertures configured to extract ions from an ion source to form a plurality of beamlets. A magnetic analyzer is configured to provide a magnetic field to deflect ions in the beamlets in a first direction that is generally perpendicular to a principle axis of the beamlets. A mass analysis plate includes a set of apertures wherein first ion species having a first mass/charge ratio are transmitted through the mass analysis plate and second ion species having a second mass/charge ratio are blocked by the mass analysis plate. A workpiece holder is configured to move with respect to the mass analysis plate in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein a pattern of ions transmitted through the mass analysis plate forms a continuous ion beam current along the first direction at the substrate. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120187290 | APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING ION BEAM BY BENDED BAR MAGNETS - Apparatus and method for adjusting an ion beam between a mass analyzer and a substrate holder. Herein, one or more bended, such as arch-shaped, curved or zigzag shaped, bar magnets are configured to apply one or more magnetic fields to adjust the shape or cross section of an ion beam passing through a space partially surrounded by the one or more bended bar magnets. At least one of the gap width between neighbor bended bar magnets, the curvature of each bended bar magnet and the current flowing through each bended bar magnet may be fixed or adjusted dependently or independently. Therefore, the Lorentz force applied on the ion beam along different directions may be changed in a desired manner, and then the ion beam may be flexibly elongated, compressed or shaped to meet the process requirement. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20140217282 | RADIO-FREQUENCY-FREE HYBRID ELECTROSTATIC/MAGNETOSTATIC CELL FOR TRANSPORTING, TRAPPING, AND DISSOCIATING IONS IN MASS SPECTROMETERS - Mass spectrometry cells include one or more interleaved magnetostatic and electrostatic lenses. In some examples, the electrostatic lenses are based on electrical potentials applied to magnetostatic lens pole pieces. In other alternatives, the electrostatic lenses can include conductive apertures. Applied voltages can be selected to trap or transport charged particles, and photon sources, gas sources, ion sources, and electron sources can be provided for various dissociation processes. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140312223 | BROADBAND ION BEAM ANALYZER - A broadband ion beam analyzer, used for isolating required ions from a broadband ion beam, comprises an upper magnetic pole ( | 10-23-2014 |
| 20160126082 | MASS ANALYZING ELECTROMAGNET AND ION BEAM IRRADIATION APPARATUS - A mass analyzing electromagnet is provided. The mass analyzing electromagnet includes an analysis tube having an internal zone formed as a passage for the ion beam; and
| 05-05-2016 |
| 250299000 | With detector | 1 |
| 20150348770 | Mass Spectrometer With Optimized Magnetic Shunt - The present invention relates to a mass spectrometer device comprising a source of ions, an electrostatic sector, a non-scanning magnetic sector arranged downstream of the electrostatic sector, for separating ions originating at the source of ions according to their mass-to-charge ratios, and a detection means. A magnetic shunt is arranged in the drift space between the electrostatic sector and the magnetic sector. The proposed position of the magnetic shunt enhances the resolving power of the mass spectrometer device. | 12-03-2015 |
