Nuctech Company Limited

Tsinghua University

Changzhou Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine

Yangtian Zhang

Hua Peng

Jin Ping Lin

Zhongxia Zhang

Yuanjing Li

Qingjun Zhang

Wen He

Yaoxin Wang

Zhiqiang Chen

Hui Li

Peng Jiao

Jianhua Liu

Shaoji Mao

Shiping Cao

Zhude Dai

Qinghua Wang

Bin Xue

Dexu Lin

Yuntai Bao

Haichao Zhou

Shaofeng Wang

Wangyang Wu

Qiang Wang

Wei Chen

Yinong Liu

Tong Zhang

Haifeng Hu

Kun Zhao

Jinyu Zhang

Ming Ruan

Xin Xue

Changzhuo Chen

Zhizhong Liang

Weizhi Lin

Liwei Song

Haijun Yu

Guangqin Li

Yingrong Jian

Yi Xiao

Guanxing Li

Xiaoti Yin

Qifang Wang

Xiuting Zhang

Zhanhong Jia

Xiaoyong Zheng

Dai Hua, Legal Representative

Jianhu Ma

Zeying Wu

Yuejin Qiu

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an automatic calibration device for an ion migration spectrometer and an ion migration spectrometer. The automatic calibration device includes: a reservoir configured to store liquid calibration sample therein; and an automatic transfer portion communicated with the reservoir and configured to transfer the liquid calibration sample in the reservoir.

Automatic calibration device and ion migration spectrometer

A method and device for detecting radioactive sources is disclosed. In one aspect, an example method includes measuring, by a detector, a count rate curve of an inspection object while the inspection object moves through the detector. Pattern recognition is performed on the count rate curve. Whether there are radioactive sources in the inspection object is determined according to a result of the pattern recognition, and if there are radioactive sources in the inspection object, a type of the radioactive sources is determined.

Methods and devices for detecting radioactive sources

The present disclosure discloses a corona discharge assembly, an ion mobility spectrometer and a corona discharge method. The corona discharge assembly includes at least one corona discharge unit, wherein, the corona discharge unit includes a pair of corona metal wires arranged in parallel, and pulses having the same amplitude but opposite polarities are applied to the corona metal wires arranged in parallel, respectively. The present disclosure can generate more reactive ions than corona needles or tips, facilitate improving sensitivity of the ion mobility spectrometer, and effectively prolong service life of a corona source to 3-10 years.

Corona discharge assembly, ion mobility spectrometer and corona discharge method

Embodiments of the present invention provide an air dryer for an ion mobility spectrometer, comprising a heating element used to heat a thermal conduction device, thereby heating the desiccant. Embodiments of the present invention further provide a regeneration method, by which the operation mode of the ion mobility spectrometer may be switched, so that during a non-working time of the ion mobility spectrometer, the desiccant is heated and thereby regenerated. With the present invention, the desiccant is avoided from being regularly replaced, thereby improving the performance and increasing the service life of the dryer. Regeneration of the desiccant is performed by making full use of the non-working time of the ion mobility spectrometer without affecting normal operation of instrument.

Air dryer for ion mobility spectrometer

The present disclosure discloses a continuous operable gas purification device in an ion mobility spectrometer including a housing provided with a cylinder cavity; a dry gas supply unit; a rotating barrier arranged in a radial direction of the cylinder cavity to divide it into a baking cavity and a working cavity; and a rotating mechanism. The housing is provided with a dry gas inlet and a dry gas outlet, which are communicated with the baking cavity, and a sample gas inlet and a sample gas outlet, which are communicated with the working cavity. The dry gas supply unit is connected with the dry gas inlet for a dry gas supply to the dry gas inlet. The baking cavity is provided with a heating unit correspondingly. The rotating mechanism is provided at a central position of the cylinder cavity and connected with the rotating barrier for rotating it at intervals.

Continuous operable gas purification device in an ion mobility spectrometer

A detection apparatus and method for an ion migration spectrum include acquiring an ion migration spectrum of pure carrier gas and an ion migration spectrum of carrier gas containing a test substance sample and performing differential process on the ion migration spectrum of the pure carrier gas and the ion migration spectrum of the carrier gas containing the test substance sample to acquire a differential spectrum. The value of a characteristic peak of the differential spectrum represents properties of the sample of substances. The method avoids interferences on the migration spectrum from interference sources of the apparatus itself, thereby improving detection sensitivity and accuracy of the ion migration spectrum, and migration spectrum shift caused by variations in the environmental conditions can be found and corrected through the differential process on the migration spectrum of the pure carrier gas, thereby achieving self-stableness and self-correction of the ion migration spectrometer.

Detection method for an ion migration spectrum and an ion migration spectrometer using the same method

The present invention discloses a filter device. The filter device comprises a housing with an air inlet and an filtered air outlet; a high voltage electric field region provided between two ends of the housing, wherein the direction of the electric field is perpendicular to the direction along which the air is introduced into the housing; an ionization source provided in the electric field region to ionize the ionizable pollutants present in the air introduced from the air inlet and form the resultant ionized pollutants which will move towards both ends of the housing under the influence of the electric field; and a discharging device for discharging the ionized pollutants which have arrived at the ends of the housing out of the filter device. The present invention also relates to a filtering method of using the filter device, and a trace detector. The filter device can be used to ionize the ionizable interferents existed in the air, separate the ionized interferents from the other components of the air under the influence of the electric field, and discharge the interferent out of the filter device, thereby reducing the consumption of the consumables or even eliminating the need for consumables. The filter device in accordance with the present invention is applicable to a trace detector based on ion mobility technology for the detection of trace amounts of substances.

Filter device, filter method and trace detector

An ion mobility tube comprises an ionization source chamber having a center ionization source chamber hole, an ion door, a mobility region unit having a center mobility tube chamber, a constraining grid, and a Faraday disk, and the ionization source chamber, the ion door, the mobility region unit, the constraining grid, and the Faraday disk are laminated together in sequence in a front-rear direction, wherein the mobility region unit comprises a first insulator and first metal electrode sheets concentrically fixed to a front surface and a back surface of the first insulator respectively. The mobility region unit comprises the first insulator and the first metal electrode sheets which are integral. Therefore, the ion mobility tube is advantageous in simplified manufacturing, and convenient for detachment and assembly.

Ion mobility tube

Disclosed is a sampling method which comprises the steps of: blowing airflow towards a center portion of a sampling surface through a blowing port; and sucking the blown airflow from periphery of the sampling surface through a sucking port, or a sampling method which comprises the steps of: providing a sampling device on a sampling surface, the sampling device being shaped to form a sampling space together with the sampling surface, and the sampling device including a blowing port arranged at the center portion of the sampling device and a sucking port arranged at periphery of the sampling device; blowing airflow towards the sampling surface through the blowing port; and sucking the airflow blown towards the sampling surface through the sucking port so as to collect samples.

Sampling method and sampling device

The present invention relates to a dopant gas generating device for supplying the dopant gas to the ion mobility spectrometry instrument, comprising: a doping container; an air inlet having an inlet end connecting with an upstream side of a carrier gas passage and an outlet end connecting with the doping container; an air outlet having an entrance end connecting with the doping container and an exit end connecting with an downstream side of the carrier gas passage; a dopant gas generating unit for releasing the dopant gas, wherein the dopant gas generating unit is disposed within the doping container. Through disposing the dopant gas generating unit, which is used for releasing the dopant gas, within the doping container, the dopant gas in the present invention is applicable with not only a solid state dopant, but also a liquid state dopant.

Dopant gas generating device

A sampling component including a sampling body that can be electrically heated and an outer surface of which has a wiping sampling area to receive a sample; and an insulated handle that is connected to one longitudinal end of the sampling body. The sampling component contacts directly electrical contacts of an external power supply after being positioned in a analysis chamber, the power supply is turned on to vaporize the sample, and the power is turned off immediately after the sampling component removed from the chamber. The power consumption and a malfunction caused by long-term use of the sampling device under a high temperature can be avoided. A sampling device having the sampling component and an ion mobility spectrometer having the sampling device are also provided.

Sampling component, sampling device and ion mobility spectrometer

Disclosed is an ion mobility spectrometer. The ion mobility spectrometer comprises a sample injector (), a semipermeable membrane (), an ionization region (), a terminal electrode (), an ion storage region, a drift region and a Faraday plate (), which are arranged along a drift tube in turn, wherein one or more air inlets () connected with a needle valve () and a first filtering device () are arranged in one side near the semipermeable membrane () of the ionization region (), there is at least one opening in the terminal electrode (), whose diameter is smaller than the diameter of the air inlets (), an air outlet () connected with an air extracting pump () is arranged near the terminal electrode () in the ionization region (), the drift region is separated from the ionization region () by a micropore structure of the ion storage region, another air outlet () connected with another air extracting pump () is arranged at one side near the Faraday plate () of the terminal electrode ().

Ion mobility spectrometer

A trace detector is disclosed. The trace detector comprises: a desorption chamber defining a desorption region, and the desorption chamber has a housing. The housing has a sample feeding port for introducing a substance to be detected into the desorption chamber and a gas discharge port for discharging gas entraining the sample from the desorption chamber. A controller is used for controlling the trace detector in such a manner that the sample feeding port and the gas discharge port are in fluid communication with the desorption chamber during pre-concentration process of the trace detector, thereby continuously feeding and collecting the sample. With the above manner, data collecting, processing and analyzing processes may be performed by the trace detector throughout the sample feeding process and the gas pre-concentrating process. The trace detector has an excellent detecting period of time whether the substance to be detected in the gas is in a high concentration state or a low concentration state, and the trace detector can perform continuous sampling for a long time, thereby improving a ratio of the amount of trapped substance to the amount of the substance entrained in the gas to be detected and the amount of the cumulated trapped substance, decreasing the probability of failing to detect the substance, and increasing detection sensitivity. In addition, the detection efficiency of the detector is increased during the gas pre-concentration process.

Trace detector and analytical method for trace detector

Disclosed is an ion source comprising a plate-shaped source body which has radioactivity on its both sides and allows positive and negative ions to penetrate through the source body. The present invention gives beneficial effects. First, the ion source structure can improve the ionization efficiency of sample molecules, and the generated sample ions have a centralized distribution within a flat space on both sides of the source body. Such distribution of ion cloud facilitates to improve the IMS sensitivity. Meanwhile, the source body of the present invention has a transmittance in itself. Thus, positive and negative ions generated on both sides of the source body can penetrate through the source body and be separated to the both sides of the source body. In this way, it is possible to improve the utilization efficiency of ions.

Double-faced ion source

A hand-held sampling apparatus used for an ion mobility spectrometer and method of obtaining a sample are provided to prevent deformation of sampling wipes when detecting explosives and drugs. The apparatus has a body comprising a handle in the rear portion and a wiping sampling mechanism in the front portion, with a wiping surface located on its underside. The sampling wipe can be in full contact with the surface of the object during wiping to improve wiping efficiency. Correspondingly, a smaller sample inlet port can be disposed on the analyzer so as to save a large amount of sampling wipes. and meanwhile avoid sampling wipes from deformation and folds hard to restore, thereby ensuring subsequent sample insertion operation, enhancing the efficiency of both sample collection and sample injection and improving the detection performance for the analytes to be detected. The method of using said sampling device according to the present invention comprises the following steps: attaching a sampling wipe to the swiping surface; fixing the front end portion of the sampling wipe by using the front holder, and fixing the rear end portion of the sampling wipe by using the rear holder. The method of the present invention is simple and convenient.

Hand-held sampling device preventing deformation of sampling wipe and method of use thereof

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