Liquid atomizing apparatus

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.