PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16186821
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["250", "287000"]

Abstract:
A system for expressing an ion path in a time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometer. The present invention uses two successive curved sectors, with the second one reversed, to form S-shaped configuration such that an output ion beam is parallel to an input ion beam, such that the ions makes two identical but opposed turns, and such that the geometry of the entire system folds into a very compact volume. Geometry of a TOF mass spectrometer system in accordance with embodiments of the present invention further includes straight drift regions positioned before and after the S-shaped configuration and, optionally, a short straight region positioned between the two curved sectors with total length equal to about the length of the central arc of both curved sectors.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for expressing an ion path in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer, comprising:\n a first straight sector defining a first straight ion flight path, said first straight sector having a first sector entrance and a first sector outlet, wherein the first sector entrance is positioned to receive a plurality of ions along the first straight ion flight path; a first electric sector defining a first curved ion flight path, said first electric sector having a first electric sector entrance and a first electric sector outlet, wherein the first electric sector entrance is positioned opposing the first straight sector outlet and to receive the plurality of ions from the first straight sector outlet along the first curved ion flight path; a second electric sector defining a second curved ion flight path, said second electric sector having a second electric sector entrance and a second electric sector outlet, wherein the second electric sector entrance is positioned opposing the first electric sector outlet and to receive the plurality of ions exiting from the first electric sector outlet along the second curved ion flight path; and a turn-around section, wherein said turn-around section reverses the path of said plurality of ions exiting said second electric sector outlet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71795
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15249370', '15701430', '10758326', '10424351', '11148865']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7227066035882184
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5742918035085112
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7078651235802477
- Mean Citation Score: 371.01247
- Max Citation Score: 450.4385
- Similarity Product: 447.00412852603193

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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