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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 29, 1980
Filed:
Aug. 15, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jochen Franzen, Wildeshausen, DE;
Assignee:
Varian Mat GmbH, Bremen, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ; B01D / ; H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364527 ; 250282 ; 364498 ; 364567 ;
Abstract
Ions from an unknown and two known masses are fed through a quadrupole mass filter to an electron multiplier detector whose digitally converted output is supplied to a data processing device. The latter controls the alternating and DC signals fed to the paired electrode rods of the filter. The data processing device performs transformations on the mass characteristic curves derived from the ions to equalize their widths, heights and shapes, and then determines the distance between the normalized curves using a voltage shifting technique to superimpose the curves one on another. The unknown mass may then be accurately determined from the separation distances.