Explosives detection using differential mobility spectrometry

US7605367B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Sionex Corporation · US

Inventors

• Raanan Miller · Cambridge, US
• Erkinjon G. Nazarov · Lexington, US
• David Wheeler · Osseo, US
• Quan Shi · Westford, US
• John A. Wright · Billerica, US
• Gary A. Eiceman · Las Cruces, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 17, 2007
• Grant date: Oct 20, 2009
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N33/22
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention relates generally to ion mobility based systems, methods and devices for analyzing samples and, more particularly, in some embodiments to compact GC-DMS systems, methods, and devices employing enhanced GC column temperature control and configurations to identify various sample constituents.