US 12,152,807 B2
Liquid atomizing apparatus
Tomokazu Eda, Nisshin (JP); Teruhisa Fujii, Nagoya (JP); Hitoshi Kato, Yatomi (JP); and Yusuke Shimizu, Kuwana (JP)
Assigned to NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, Nagoya (JP)
Appl. No. 16/968,070
Filed by NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, Nagoya (JP)
PCT Filed Jan. 18, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/001472
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 6, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/155851, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-022654 (JP), filed on Feb. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0364176 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. F24F 6/04 (2006.01); B05B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC F24F 6/04 (2013.01) [B05B 17/00 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid atomizing apparatus comprising:
an atomizing body made of a porous material that is porous ceramics, porous glass, porous metal, or porous resin and has micropores connected in a three-dimensional network, the atomizing body having a gas pressurized-inflow surface and a gas release surface;
a holder member that holds the atomizing body, wherein an enclosed space is surrounded by, and internal to, a combination of the holder member and the gas pressurized-inflow surface;
a liquid supply configured to supply droplets of a liquid to the atomizing body to be impregnated into the micropores of the atomizing body; and
a gas supply configured to:
supply gas to the enclosed space so that a gas pressure on the gas pressurized-inflow surface is higher than a gas pressure on the gas release surface of the atomizing body,
inject the gas into the micropores of the atomizing body through the gas pressurized-inflow surface, and
release a mist of the liquid impregnated in the micropores together with the gas from the gas release surface, wherein
the gas release surface includes a portion on which the liquid supplied from the liquid supply flows and spreads, the portion forming an upward inclined surface facing obliquely upward.