Claims
- 1. A high-pressure electrochemical cell device made up of at least one cell that comprises a laminar assembly of plate-shaped components and an electrolyte, wherein a first type of said plate-shaped components has sealing surfaces that are devoid of at least one interrupted row of slots, wherein said sealing surfaces of said first type of said plate-shaped components are devoid of surface deformations, wherein a second type of said plate-shaped components has sealing surfaces that include at least one interrupted row of slots, and wherein said cell(s) is prepared by a method comprising: preparing at least one laminated sub-assembly consisting of said first type of said plate-shaped components prior to preparing final laminar assemblies comprising both first and second type of said plate-shaped components and prior to assembling said final laminar assemblies and said electrolyte to form at least one cell.
- 2. The high-pressure electrochemical cell device of claim 1, wherein said laminar assembly comprises at least one set of said second type of said plate-shaped components,wherein each said set comprises at least one first plate-shaped component and at least one second plate-shaped component, wherein said first and said second plate-shaped components of each set each comprise: a central portion having a plurality of identical or substantially identical openings or fluid-flow spaces; and a solid frame portion, integral with and completely surrounding said central portion, and provided with at least one through aperture and a plurality of slots that form at least one discontinuous partial channel between said aperture(s) and said central portion, wherein said apertures of said first and said second plate-shaped components of each set in said laminar assembly are aligned to form at least one continuous fluid-flow conduit through said assembly, wherein said plurality of openings of said first and said second plate-shaped components of each set in said assembly are offset from each other thereby forming a plurality of reduced area, identical or substantially identical, openings or fluid-flow spaces through said set, and wherein said discontinuous partial channels of said first and of said second plate-shaped components of each set of said assembly communicate with one another to form a continuous passage that establishes fluid communication between said apertures and said plurality of reduced area openings of said central portions of said first and of said second plate-shaped components.
Parent Case Info
This is a division of copending application Ser. No. 08/753,541 filed on Nov. 26, 1996.
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