TOF with clock phase to time bin distribution
US7463983B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | May 25, 2007 |
| Grant date | Dec 9, 2008 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 25, 2027 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH01J49/40
- WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A TOF mass spectrometer has a clock phase to time bin cycling device that distributes data among storage cells in a random or systematic pattern that cancels out errors due to binary clock path and/or binary signal line irregularities. Data for peaks acquired from plural shots during TOF analysis are distributed among plural binary clock paths and the storage cells such that errors from irregularities in the binary clock paths and/or binary signal lines are not predominant in any peak of a spectrum generated from the analysis.
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