PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16245023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["250", "283000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for separating ions includes an electrode arrangement having a length extending between first and second ends. The first end is configured to introduce a beam of ions into an ion transmission space of the arrangement. An electronic controller applies an RF potential and a DC potential to an electrode of the electrode arrangement, for generating a ponderomotive RF electric field and a mass-independent DC electric field. The application of the potentials is controlled such that a ratio of the strength of the ponderomotive RF electric field to the strength of the mass-independent DC electric field varies along the length of the electrode arrangement. The generated electric field supports extraction of ions having different m/z values at respective different positions along the length of the electrode arrangement. Ions are extracted in one of increasing and decreasing sequential order of m/z ratio with increasing distance from the first end.

Claim (Index 9):
A mass spectrometer system, comprising:\n a continuous flux ion source for producing a beam of ions comprising ions having a first range of mass-to-charge (m/z) ratios; an ion flux separator disposed in fluid communication with the ion source and comprising: an electrode arrangement having a length extending in an axial direction between a first end thereof and a second end thereof, the second end opposite the first end, and the first end configured to introduce the beam of ions from the continuous flux ion source into an ion transmission space of the electrode arrangement; wherein the electrode arrangement comprises a single quadrupole electrode assembly comprising a substantially parallel arrangement of four non-segmented, rod-shaped electrodes; and, wherein the electronic controller is configured to apply the RF potential to at least some of the non-segmented rod-shaped electrodes; and,\n an electronic controller in electrical communication with the electrode arrangement and configured to apply an RF potential and a DC potential to at least an electrode of the electrode arrangement forming a plurality of separate ion beamlets, each ion beamlet having m/z ratios within a different second range of m/z ratios, and each second range of m/z ratios being within the first range of m/z ratios; \n at least one mass analyzer in fluid communication with the ion flux separator for receiving separately each one of the separate ion beamlets; and, \n wherein the beam of ions is split into a plurality of spatially separate ion beamlets of narrower m/z ratio ranges than the first range of m/z ratios, stored in separate independently controlled ion storage cells, released from each storage cell when a predetermined amount of ions have accumulated in the storage cells and analyzed in at least one mass analyzer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.10811
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15060474', '11483961', '14786714', '11996236', '13827685']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7169904183844433
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6171687886275652
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7070082554087556
- Mean Citation Score: 333.82263
- Max Citation Score: 553.5209
- Similarity Product: 537.8180933247564

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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