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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
May. 21, 2014
Applicant:
Ching Wu, Boxborough, MA (US);
Inventor:
Ching Wu, Boxborough, MA (US);
Assignee:
Excellims Corporation, Acton, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01J 49/049 (2013.01);
Abstract
This invention describes a sample collection and desorption device and method that collects residues of explosives and other chemicals from a surface and then introduces them into a detector. The desorption method and device include introducing additional chemicals while heating up the sample collector, thus, the collected sample may be converted via a chemical reaction or a catalytic process. The detector can be an ion mobility spectrometer or mass spectrometer.