US 6,982,413 B2 | ||
Method of automatically calibrating electronic controls in a mass spectrometer | ||
Brent A. Knecht, Lebanon, Ind. (US); and Garth E. Patterson, Brookston, Ind. (US) | ||
Assigned to Griffin Analytical Technologies, Inc., West Lafayette, Ind. (US) | ||
Filed on Sep. 03, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/933,972. | ||
Claims priority of provisional application 60/500545, filed on Sep. 05, 2003. | ||
Prior Publication US 2005/0051720 A1, Mar. 10, 2005 | ||
Int. Cl. H01J 49/00 (2006.01); H01J 49/04 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 250—281 | 20 Claims |
1. A method for controlling a signal in a mass spectrometer, comprising the steps of:
providing a desired signal for controlling at least one of an ionization component and an analysis component of the mass spectrometer;
at least one of amplifying and biasing the desired signal to produce an output signal;
monitoring and storing data relating to the output signal;
predicting a parameter relating to at least one of the output signal and the at least one of an ionization component and an
analysis component, the predicting based on data stored in the monitoring and storing step; and
providing an indication upon the parameter being outside of a range.
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