US 12,488,972 B2
Atmospheric solids analysis source assembly
Arvind Rangan, Singapore (SG); Veronica Lum, Singapore (SG); Carl Chen, Singapore (SG); Steven Rocha, Singapore (SG); Enchen Guo, Singapore (SG); Nicola Lumley, Wilmslow (GB); and David Douce, Wilmslow (GB)
Assigned to Micromass UK Limited, Wilmslow (GB)
Appl. No. 17/998,005
Filed by Micromass UK Ltd, Wilmslow (GB)
PCT Filed May 5, 2021, PCT No. PCT/GB2021/051079
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 4, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/224612, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 10202004140Y (SG), filed on May 5, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0170200 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. H01J 49/04 (2006.01)
CPC H01J 49/0404 (2013.01) [H01J 49/0431 (2013.01); H01J 49/0459 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A nozzle for directing heated gas onto the distal end of a capillary arrangeable adjacent the nozzle, the nozzle comprising:
a housing defining a plenum for heated gas; and
at outlet comprising at least one aperture fluidly connected to the plenum, the outlet configured to direct a curtain of the heated gas onto the distal end of a capillary in use, such that the plane of the curtain of heated gas is substantially aligned with the longitudinal axis of the capillary.