US 12,191,134 B2
Compact time-of-flight mass analyzer
Jürg Jost, Gümlingen (CH); and Lukas Hofer, Meilen (CH)
Assigned to Spacetek Technology AG, Muri bei Bern (CH)
Appl. No. 17/642,996
Filed by Spacetek Technology AG, Muri bei Bern (CH)
PCT Filed Oct. 22, 2020, PCT No. PCT/IB2020/059932
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 15, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/079310, PCT Pub. Date Apr. 29, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 1915528 (GB), filed on Oct. 25, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0344143 A1, Oct. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. H01J 49/40 (2006.01); H01J 49/06 (2006.01); H05K 1/02 (2006.01); H05K 1/18 (2006.01)
CPC H01J 49/401 (2013.01) [H01J 49/068 (2013.01); H05K 1/0233 (2013.01); H05K 1/181 (2013.01); H05K 2201/10151 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A set of acceleration electrodes for the acceleration of charged particles in a vacuum ion optical system, each acceleration electrode comprises:
a conical section; and
an elongated leg protruding from the conical section, the elongated leg configured as a mechanical support and as an electrical connection between the conical section and a source for an electric potential.