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Publications and source records attributed to Sieradski, L. M..
Eighteen-pound unit gives real-time onsite sample analysis. Mass range is twelve to two hundred atomic mass units with resolution of two hundred. Device has biomedical application possibilities, such as determination of alcohol and gas content of blood and breath.
A mass spectrometer (MS) with unique magnetic pole pieces which provide a homogenous magnetic field across the gap of the MS magnetic sector as well as the magnetic field across an ion-type vacuum pump is disclosed. The pole pieces form the top and bottom sides of a housing. The housing is positioned so that portions of the pole pieces form part of the magnetic sector with the space between them defining the gap region of the magnetic sector, through which an ion beam passes. The pole pieces extend beyond the magnetic sector with the space between them being large enough to accommodate the electrical parts of an ion-type vacuum pump. The pole pieces which provide the magnetic field for the pump, together with the housing form the vacuum pump enclosure or housing.
Device uses lighter, easily alined, magnet assembly to provide field required to interact with ion beam. It has no separate duct; instead, evacuated duct is formed by pole pieces which support vacuum pump. Magnetic gap and magnet assembly are reduced from 4.64 to 2.54 mm and from 2.4 to 1.5 kg, respectively.