Electric shaver
AssigneeIzumi Products Company
InventorsSeiji Iwashita, Akira Hirabayashi, Yukio Izumi
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Abstract
An electric shaver having a cutter head that includes a movable cutter unit. With a single switching operation of a mode-switching dial that switches the operating mode of the shaver and is installed on the shaver main body, the movable cutter unit is moved upward or downward from a normal position, and the angle of inclination of the cutter head with respect to the shaver main body 1 is varied as well.
Claims4
An electric shaver comprising a cutter head which is installed on an upper portion of a shaver main body in a pivotable fashion in a forward-rearward direction and which is provided therein with a plurality of cutter units, each of said cutter units having an outer cutter and an inner cutter that reciprocates while making sliding contact with an inside surface of said outer cutter, wherein
- said cutter head is equipped with at least one cutter unit as a movable cutter unit;
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- with a single switching operation of a mode-switching section that switches operating mode of said shaver and is installed on said shaver main body,
- said movable cutter unit is moved to a specific position in an upward or downward direction from a standard position, and
- an angle of inclination of said cutter head with respect to said shaver main body is varied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.