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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1976
Filed:
Feb. 11, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Paris, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62113 ; 6246 / ; 62502 ;
Abstract
A bath of helium-4 is cooled to a temperature below the .lambda. point so as to convert the lower portion of the bath to a superfluid-helium zone. A narrow stream between a top and a bottom portion of the zone is subjected to a critical heat flux corresponding to a temperature gradient by cooling the bath in the bottom portion of the superfluid-helium zone, the temperatures thus attainable being considerably lower than the .lambda. transition point.