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Vacuum System
Schematic of the Internal Gas Supply Lines
Figure 9.
Functional block diagram of the vacuum system
Nitrogen
gas port
Sheath
gas valve
Aux gas
valve
Sample input
device
Sample tube
Exhaust
Forepump(s)
Schematic of the Internal Gas Supply Lines
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Sweep
gas valve
Ion transfer
Atmospheric
tube and RF
pressure
lens region
region
Convection
vacuum gauge
Figure 10
shows a schematic drawing of the gas lines in the mass spectrometer.
Figure 10. Schematic of the internal gas supplies
Collision
cell
Gas box
(Left side of the MS)
UHP argon gas inlet
MP00
MP0
ion optics
ion optics
region
region
Triple-inlet
turbomolecular pump
Foreline
HP nitrogen gas inlet
Filtered air
Vent
valve
Mass
analyzer
Collision
region
cell
Convection
vacuum gauge
Collision gas
divert valve
Collision
gas valve
API
source
Source PCB
Ion
gauge
Argon
gas port
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