Patent ID: 8598516
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: G01N,H01J

Abstract:
1. A method of mass-spectrometry, comprising: ionizing a substance sample in an ionic source block, formation an ion flux in MS, managing motion of said ion flux including mass dispersion by at least one of the ion flux by mass/charge ratio, by means of at least one of a magnetic field and an electric field; said magnetic field and said electric field generated by groups of ion-conducting blocks comprising ion-conducting IB-channels with boundary surfaces and IO channel systems, where IB-channels are part of a MS-channel with its own MS-channel IO system; wherein said MS channel comprises at least one said ion-conducting IB-channel and at least one ionic source IB-channel of said ionic source block connected in series, wherein said IO channel system of each said ion-conducting IB-channel comprises at least one of: a subsystem with a curved main axis in a cross-space dispersing mode, a subsystem with a curved main axis, in a multi-reflecting mode, and any other subsystem, hereinafter named as a management subsystem, registering ions in said ion flux using at least one detector group of a detector system; and controlling and managing of all blocks of a mass-spectrometer as well as supporting data processing in said mass spectrometer using a controller-computer subsystem, wherein said forming and said management of said ionic source block connected in series, wherein said IO channel system of each said ion-conducting IB-channel comprises at least one of a control subsystem, a subsystem with a curved main axis in a cross-space dispersing mode, and a subsystem with a curved main axis in a multi-reflecting mode, and wherein said generating and said controlling said motion are carried out by at least one of: (a) parallel mass-spectrometry in a said MS-channel using at least one mode selected from: channel-multipath ion flux including a mode with multi-cell section surfaces, off-axis channel-single-path ion flux, including a mode with double-cell section surfaces; (b) control of said ion flux using an electric IO channel system comprising at least one of an IO element enabling selection of a specified spatial orientation of said IO element relative to at least one other IO element and relative to a direction of an averaged vector of said ion flux entering said IO element, a flat unary P-multireflector, a three-dimensional P-multireflector, a cascade-multilayered multireflector, an extended P-element of refraction, a three-dimensional P-element of reflection, a P-element of non-uniform height, and a P-element of reflection with a two-dimensional reflection zone.