Corona discharge assembly, ion mobility spectrometer, computer program and computer readable storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9337626-B2
Application number	US-201414577211-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2014
Priority date	Dec 30, 2013
Publication date	May 10, 2016
Grant date	May 10, 2016

Abstract

The present invention discloses a corona discharge assembly, an ion mobility spectrometer, an computer program and an computer readable storage medium. The corona discharge assembly includes: an ionization discharge chamber, wherein the ionization discharge chamber includes a metal corona cylinder, and the metal corona cylinder is provided with an inlet of a gas to be analyzed and a trumpet-shaped front port which is conductive to forming a gathered electric field; multiple corona pins, in which on-off of a high voltage can be independently controlled, are installed at the center of the metal corona cylinder in an insulating manner. The present invention further discloses an ion mobility spectrometer using the above-mentioned corona discharge assembly. The present invention can be used to prolong the service life of the integral corona discharge assembly; the discharge voltage of the ion source can be reduced and the discharge stability thereof can be improved; in comparison with the suspended installation of a pin-shaped electrode, since the multiple corona pins are fixed on the PCB, during installation, the position of the electrode can be accurate and stable, thus mass manufacture is easier to achieve.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A corona discharge assembly, characterized in that, the corona discharge assembly comprises:
an ionization discharge chamber, wherein the ionization discharge chamber comprises a metal corona cylinder, and the metal corona cylinder is provided with an inlet of a gas to be analyzed and a trumpet-shaped front port which is conductive to forming a gathered electric field;
multiple corona pins, in which on-off of a high voltage can be independently controlled, are installed at the center of the metal corona cylinder in an insulating manner, wherein the trumpet-shaped front port expands in diameter in a direction away from the corona pins; and
an ion reaction and storage ring, wherein the ion reaction and storage ring is an internal passage that is trumpet-shaped, and the small opening end of the ion reaction and storage ring is embedded in the larger end of the trumpet-shaped opening of the metal corona cylinder.

2. The corona discharge assembly according to claim 1 , characterized in that, the corona discharge assembly further comprises a PCB for fixing the corona pin.

3. The corona discharge assembly according to claim 2 , characterized in that, the PCB is a high temperature resistant PCB with a wiring layer clamped between two insulating layers.

4. The corona discharge assembly according to claim 2 , characterized in that, multiple uniformly distributed via holes are formed in the front end of the PCB, wherein the assembly position of the via hole at the center thereof is located on the axial line of the metal corona cylinder, and a corona pin is brazed in each via hole.

5. The corona discharge assembly according to claim 4 , characterized in that, the eccentric distance of all corona pins is 0.4 mm.

6. The corona discharge assembly according to claim 4 , characterized in that, each via hole is connected with a single conducting wire.

7. The corona discharge assembly according to claim 6 , characterized in that, the single conducting wire is a PCB copper clad conducting wire, wherein independent high voltage conducting wires are respectively welded at the tail end thereof in order to be connected with an external high voltage power supply.

8. The corona discharge assembly according to claim 7 , characterized in that, the on-off of each high voltage conducting wire can be singly controlled.

9. The corona discharge assembly according to claim 1 , wherein the ion reaction and storage ring is not in electrical contact with the metal corona cylinder, and the large opening end of the ion reaction and storage ring is in contact with a first grid of an ion gate to form an equipotential area between the interior of the large opening end and the first grid of the ion gate, in order to store ions.

10. An ion mobility spectrometer, characterized in that, the ion mobility spectrometer comprises:
the corona discharge assembly according to claim 1 ;
an ion gate composed of two opposite grids;
a migration area, wherein the migration area comprises drift electrodes which are concentric equidistant circular ring electrodes; and
a Faraday disc, wherein the rear of the Faraday disc is connected with a charge sensitive amplifier to read ion signals.

11. A method for corona discharge by using the corona discharge assembly according to claim 1 , wherein at any moment, only one corona pin generates corona discharge, and the rest corona pins are suspended; the multiple corona pins are alternately loaded with a high voltage to work.

12. A computer program for controlling corona discharging of corona discharge assembly, characterized in that, controlling corona discharging of the corona discharge assembly according to claim 1 , the computer program comprises the following step:
wherein, only one corona pin generates corona discharge at any moment, the rest pins are suspended; and the multiple pins are alternately loaded with the high voltage to work.

13. A computer readable storage medium, characterized in that, the computer readable storage medium is used for storing the computer program according to claim 12 .

Assignees

• Nuctech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Qingjun
• Li Yuanjing
• Chen Zhiqiang
• Wang Yanchun
• Zhao Ziran
• Liu Yinong
• Liu Yaohong
• Zou Xiang
• Ma Qiufeng
• Wang Junxiao
• Li Xianghua
• Chang Jianping

Classifications

• G01N27/622

  Ion mobility spectrometry · CPC title

• H01T19/00 Primary

  Devices providing for corona discharge (for charging electrographic elements G03G15/02) · CPC title

• H01J49/168

  field ionisation, e.g. corona discharge (atmospheric pressure corona discharge per se H01T19/00) · CPC title