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US 2024/0404815 A1Published application
Automatic positioning of an electrospray ionization emitter
AssigneeThermo Finnigan LLC
InventorsJoshua A. Silveira, Eloy R. Wouters, Gary A. Schultz
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Abstract
A position control system may obtain image data representative of one or more images that depict an inlet of a mass spectrometer and an emitter positioned near the inlet and adjust, based on the image data, a position of the emitter relative to the inlet to an optimum position that is at or near a reference position relative to the inlet.
Claims22
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause a computing device to perform a process comprising:
- obtaining image data representative of one or more images that depict an inlet of a mass spectrometer and an emitter positioned near the inlet;
- and
- adjusting, based on the image data, a position of the emitter relative to the inlet to an optimum position that is at or near a reference position relative to the inlet.
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A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed, direct at least one processor of a computing device for mass spectrometry to perform a process comprising:
- obtaining image data representative of one or more images that depict an inlet of a mass spectrometer and an emitter positioned near the inlet;
- and
- adjusting, based on the image data, a position of the emitter relative to the inlet to an optimum position that is at or near a reference position relative to the inlet.
A system comprising:
- an automated positioning system configured to hold an ionization emitter near an inlet of a mass spectrometer and adjust a position of the ionization emitter relative to the inlet of the mass spectrometer;
- an imaging system configured to capture images of the ionization emitter and the inlet of the mass spectrometer;
- and
- a position control system configured to perform a process comprising:
- obtaining, from the imaging system, image data representative of one or more images that depict the inlet of the mass spectrometer and the ionization emitter positioned near the inlet;
- and
- directing, based on the image data, the automated positioning system to adjust the position of the ionization emitter relative to the inlet of the mass spectrometer to an optimum position that is at or near a reference position relative to the inlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.