| 摘要 |
A method and apparatus for introducing electrolyte into an electrochemical cell housing (20) comprises drawing at least a partial vacuum in a first chamber (14) located above and operatively connected to an electrochemical cell housing, so that said at least partial vacuum is thereby also drawn on the cell housing. A fluid electrolyte is dispensed from a second chamber (28) located above and operatively connected to the first chamber (14), and maintained under positive pressure, into the first chamber and hence into the cell housing. On a predetermined volume of electrolyte having been dispensed from the second chamber into the first chamber, the partial vacuum in the first chamber is broken and the first chamber pressurized, thereby to provide additional driving force for displacing the electrolyte rapidly into the cell housing. Valves 32, 18 are fitted between the first and second chambers and the first chamber and the cell housing respectively. <IMAGE> |
