PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15764129
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "288000"]

Abstract:
A liquid sample introduction system for an ion source which ionizes a liquid sample by supplying the liquid sample to an ionization probe  30  in an ion source and making an atomization-promoting gas blow at the liquid sample exiting from the tip of the ionization probe  30,  the liquid sample introduction system including: a liquid sample container  70 a - 70 f  which is a hermetically closable container for holding a liquid sample; a liquid-supply-gas passage  50  having one end connected to a point in a passage  41  for supplying an atomization-promoting gas to the ion source, and the other end connected to a space above a liquid level in the liquid sample container  70 a - 70 f;  and a sample supply passage  60  having one end connected to a space below the liquid level in the liquid sample container  70 a - 70 f  and the other end connected to the ionization probe  30.

Claim (Index 1):
A liquid sample introduction system for an ion source which ionizes a liquid sample by supplying the liquid sample to an ionization probe in an ion source and making an atomization-promoting gas blow at the liquid sample exiting from a tip of the ionization probe, the liquid sample introduction system comprising:\n a) a plurality of liquid sample containers, each of which is a hermetically closable container for holding a liquid sample; b) a liquid-supply-gas passage having one end connected to a point in a passage for supplying an atomization-promoting gas to the ion source, and another end connected to a space above a liquid level in one of the liquid sample containers; and c) a sample supply passage having one end connected to a space below the liquid level in one of the liquid sample containers and another end connected to the ionization probe, where the other end of the liquid-supply-gas passage is branched into a plurality of liquid-supply-gas sub-passages each of which is connected to the space above the liquid level in one of the liquid sample containers; the one end of the sample supply passage is branched into a plurality of sample-supply sub-passages each of which is connected to the space below the liquid level in one of the liquid sample containers; and the liquid sample introduction system further includes d) a passage-switching unit, located at a branching point of the liquid-supply-gas passage, for selectively making one of the plurality of liquid-supply-gas sub-passages be in a communicating state, or a passage-switching unit, located at a branching point of the sample supply passage, for selectively making one of the plurality of sample-supply sub-passages be in a communicating state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74576
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15763951', '15780829', '15545405', '14911411', '12474379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.673203527037684
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5437366534851618
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6602568396824319
- Mean Citation Score: 260.307146
- Max Citation Score: 384.40598
- Similarity Product: 375.91185596192594

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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