US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on July 7 for "Orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometer and tuning method for the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,296, issued on July 7, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometer and tuning method for the same" was invented by Tomoyuki Oshiro (Kyoto, Japan) and Kosuke Uchiyama (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthogonal acceleration electrode (242) deflects the flight direction of ions incident from an ion source (201). A flight-path-defining electrode (244, 246, 247) defines a flight path of the deflected ions. An ion detection section (245) detects an ion after the flight of the ion through the flight path. A voltage application section (3) applies voltages to the ort...