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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 07, 1987
Carolyn C Broadbent, Los Altos, CA (US);
John C Fjeldsted, Redwood City, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
In a gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS) instrument, an improved heating system includes an interface between the gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer portions of the instrument, a radiator located within a vacuum chamber of the mass spectrometer, a thermal coupler attaching the interface to the radiator, and a heat source which directly heats the interface and indirectly heats the radiator via conduction through the thermal coupler. The heating system uses a single heating element located externally to the vacuum system of the mass spectrometer to produce a multiplicity of temperatures for the interface and various portions of the mass spectrometer.