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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2016
Micromass Uk Limited, Wilmslow, GB;
Garry Michael Scott, Wigan, GB;
David Darrell Williams, Wilmslow, GB;
Peter Gerard Spreadbury, Liverpool, GB;
Martin Raymond Green, Bowdon, GB;
Anthony James Gilbert, High Peak, GB;
Keith George Richardson, Derbyshire, GB;
Jason Lee Wildgoose, Stockport, GB;
MICROMASS UK LIMITED, Wilmslow, GB;
Abstract
A data acquisition system for a TOF mass spectrometer comprises a processing module and a data collection module. The processing module generates a stream of data comprising, for each respective transient of a first scan, a set of time-intensity related parameter pairs. For each new set of data, the data collection module reads out a previous set of data from a previous memory bank, merges that previous set of data with the new set of data, and writes that latest merged set of data into a memory bank other than the previous memory bank. The data acquisition system provides a convenient way to merge sequential sets of time-intensity related parameter pairs for respective transients as a stream of data for a first scan is generated.