Patent ID: 8637809

Claim:
A tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer equipped with an ion source, a preliminary mass filter for selecting and transmitting ions having a specific mass-to-charge ratio from various ions produced by said ion source as precursor ions, a collision cell for splitting said precursor ions to produce product ions, a subsequent mass filter for selecting and transmitting ions having a prescribed mass-to-charge ratio among the produced product ions, and a detector for detecting the ions passing through said subsequent mass filter, wherein said tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer is provided with: a) an A/D conversion means for converting a signal obtained by said detector into digital data with a prescribed period; b) a data value assessment means for assessing whether the value of digital data obtained by said A/D conversion means exceeds a prescribed threshold; and c) a data summation means for finding measurement data of each summation period for all data obtained by said A/D conversion means during the summation period by excluding from summation the maximum predetermined number of pieces of data with values assessed to exceed the prescribed threshold by said data value assessment means and summing or averaging the values of the data that has not been excluded.