US Patent Issued to SHIMADZU on Oct. 20 for "Mass spectrometer" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,853, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHIMADZU Corp. (Japan).

"Mass spectrometer" was invented by Takeshi Uchida (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The mass spectrometer includes a vacuum chamber, an ion source, a sample introduction tube, a lens optical system, and a feed-through connector. A first unit of the lens optical system is movable relative to the sample introduction tube in the connection direction, and the second unit and the third unit are movable relative to the first unit in the orthogonal direction. The first connection piece has a first bias portion that contacts the first terminal and biases the first te...