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AssigneeAgilent Technologies, Inc.
InventorsHarvey Dean Loucks, JR., Peter T. Williams
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A disrupter apparatus comprises a nozzle comprising: a converging section; a diverging section; and a throat between the converging section and the diverging section. The disrupter apparatus also comprises a holder configured to receive a fluid conduit, which comprises an outlet located in the converging section; and a channel disposed about the holder and configured to guide a gas past the outlet of the fluid conduit, through the converging section, through the throat and into the diverging section where the gas travels at supersonic speed and establishes a standing shock wave in the diverging section. A mass spectrometer and a method are also described.
In a disruptor apparatus comprising a nozzle, the nozzle comprising a throat, a converging section and a diverging section in tandem, a method comprising:
A disrupter apparatus, comprising:
A mass spectrometer, comprising:
A mass spectrometer as claimed in claim 15, wherein the gas at least assists in nebulizing a fluid emerging from the outlet of the fluid conduit to form drops of a first size.
A mass spectrometer as claimed in claim 16, wherein the standing shock wave is formed at or near an exit of the diverging section.
A mass spectrometer as claimed in claim 18, wherein the drops are incident on the standing shock wave, and are fragmented by the shock wave into droplets of a second size that is smaller than the first size.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.