Patents by Inventor Valentin Tikhonovich Cherepin

Valentin Tikhonovich Cherepin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 4107527
    Abstract: An ion-emission microanalyzer microscope, comprising a vacuum chamber housing an ion source with a focusing system for bombarding the surface of an object under investigation. In addition, arranged along the beam of secondary ions emitted by the bombarded surface of the object under investigation, in the vacuum chamber, are an immersion objective, an aperture diaphragm, an ion-optical converter, a mass filter, and an ion detector. The ion-optical converter has a through opening coaxial with the secondary ion beam, performing the function of an aperture for separating an image element. Outside the vacuum chamber, there is a recording device connected to the output of the ion detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Inventors: Valentin Tikhonovich Cherepin, Valery Leonidovich Olkhovsky