Patent ID: 11864303
Assignee: nan
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An instrument, comprising:
a) an analyte introduction system;
b) a high-temperature analyte ionization system fluidically coupled to the analyte introduction system to receive and at least partially heat, melt, evaporate, atomize, and ionize an analyte from the analyte introduction system;
c) an analyte detection system;
d) an interface between the high-temperature analyte ionization system and the analyte detection system, wherein the interface is fluidically and thermally coupled with the high-temperature analyte ionization system and with the analyte detection system to receive the analyte from the high-temperature analyte ionization system and deliver the analyte to the analyte detection system, wherein the interface is thermally coupled to a heat exchanger cooled with a cooling gas;
wherein heat transfer from the heat exchanger to the cooling gas is induced by a natural convention, by a forced convection, or by a combination of any of natural convection, forced convection, and radiation, and
wherein the interface is thermally coupled with the analyte detection system through a set of thermal resistors configured to control a direction of heat propagation throughout the analyte detection system and control heat dissipation from the interface to the heat exchanger.