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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2012
David Rafferty, Webster, TX (US);
James Wylde, Oak Leaf, TX (US);
Michael Spencer, Manvel, TX (US);
Pedro Ojeda, Pflugerville, TX (US);
David Rafferty, Webster, TX (US);
James Wylde, Oak Leaf, TX (US);
Michael Spencer, Manvel, TX (US);
Pedro Ojeda, Pflugerville, TX (US);
1ST DETECT CORPORATION, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
In one general aspect, a sample is transferred into a mass spectrometer by capturing a sample on a collector, inserting the collector into a sample chamber coupled to the mass spectrometer and a vacuum pump, evacuating the sample chamber using the vacuum pump to reduce an internal pressure of the sample chamber to a level less than atmospheric pressure, heating the collector to release the sample from the collector, and introducing the sample into the mass spectrometer from the evacuated sample chamber.