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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 27, 2007

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2005
Applicant:

Mingda Wang, Fremont, CA (US);

Inventor:

Mingda Wang, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of operating an ion filter for selecting ions and related apparatus. The filter have a plurality of elongated electrodes, and the ions have a secular frequency. The method comprises exciting each elongated electrode with a first voltage component, the first voltage component having a first amplitude and a first frequency; exciting each elongated electrode with a second voltage component, the second voltage component having a frequency substantially equal to a secular frequency of motion for the ion; and generating an electric field and rotating the electric field around the axis.


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