Ion mobility spectrometer in a centripetal arrangement

US6100521A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Bruker Saxonia Analytik GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Rudiger Doring · Leipzig, DE
• Stefan Klepel · Leipzig, DE
• Jorg Peuker · Leipzig, DE
• Roland Schnurpfeil · Bremen, DE
• Gerhard Weiss · Ludwigshafen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 14, 1998
• Grant date: Aug 8, 2000
• Expiry date: Jul 14, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N27/622
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An ion mobility spectrometer (IMS) with electric drift fields directed at a central detector electrode. The IMS is rotationally symmetrical and has a disk shape.