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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 1996
Filed:
Jun. 07, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Barringer Research Limited, Rexdale, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ; H01J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
250286 ; 250289 ;
Abstract
The gas pressure in an ion mobility spectrometer is controlled to maintain near-constant pressure in the drift region by adjusting gas flows in response to a pressure transducer output. The pressure in the system may be referenced to ambient pressure. The increase in pressure stability achieved permits the expected drift times of target analytes to be determined much more accurately than otherwise, and thereby allows more specific detection parameters to be used. This in turn results in a significantly improved false alarm rate for the device.