IP Library Granted Patent US 7,002,145
Granted Patent B2
US 7,002,145 · App. 10/756,458 · Granted Feb 21, 2006

Detection method and detection device of special drugs

Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd.; Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation
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Patent No.
US 7,002,145
App. No.
10/756,458
Granted
Feb 21, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

Firstly, the following check chip is set up into a heater: A check chip onto which a sample has been picked up by wiping out the surface of a check target, or a check chip formed by absorbing and collecting the sample into a filter. Here, the filter has been set up in a vibration-type or heating-type portable-type absorption probe in an attachment/detachment-capable manner. Secondly, a sample gas generated from the heated check chip is analyzed using a tandem-type mass spectrometer. This makes it possible to simplify the sample pick-up from various types of check targets, and to shorten the pick-up time and the checking time.

Claims (10)

1. A special drug detection method, comprising:

a step of applying a vibration to a check target,

a step of absorbing, as a sample gas, the air on surface of or in proximity to said check target,

a step of ionizing said absorbed sample gas,

a first analysis step of analyzing masses of ions of said ionized sample gas thereby to acquire mass spectrums thereof,

a first judgment step of judging whether or not ions having a first characteristic m/z value are present on the basis of said mass spectrums acquired at said first analysis step,

a second analysis step of performing a tandem mass spectrometry in correspondence with a judgment result acquired at said first judgment step, and

a second judgment step of judging whether or not ions having a second characteristic m/z value are present on the basis of mass spectrums acquired by said tandem mass spectrometry.

2. The special drug detection method according to claim 1 , further comprising a step of outputting a judgment result in correspondence therewith, said judgment result being acquired at said second judgment step.

3. The special drug detection method according to claim 2 , wherein said judgment-result outputting step is a notification step of issuing an alarm.

Assignments (4)
MERGER Recorded Feb 12, 2014
From: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CONTROL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECH MANUFACTURING & SERVICE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032205/0422 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 12, 2014
From: HITACHI HIGH-TECH MANUFACTURING & SERVICE CORPORATION
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECH SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032205/0459 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 7, 2008
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI HIGH-TECH CONTROL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 020609/0760 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 7, 2004
From: ISHIKAWA, MASAKI; MATSUMOTO, MASAKI; NISHIKAWA, YOSHIHIRO; TAKADA, YASUAKI; NAGANO, HISASHI; SAKAMOTO, MASAMI
To: HITACHI, LTD.; HITACHI HIGH-TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 015436/0785 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2003-096487 · Mar 31, 2003 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20040195499A1 · Oct 7, 2004