Electric Shaver
AssigneeIzumi Products Company
InventorMasaki Okabe
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Abstract
An electric shaver in which a plurality of mutually separated cutter blades provided in an inner cutter are moved in relative terms while making sliding contact with an outer cutter that is formed with a plurality of hair introduction openings, so that hair that enters into the hair introduction openings of the outer cutter is cut by the cutter blades and the cutter blades are caused to intersect the same hair introduction openings of the outer cutter at different angles.
Claims8
1-11. (canceled)
An electric shaver in which a plurality of mutually separated cutter blades provided in an inner cutter are caused to move in relative terms while making sliding contact with an outer cutter that is formed with a plurality of hair introduction openings, so that hair that is introduced into the hair introduction openings of the outer cutter is cut by said plurality of mutually separated cutter blades, wherein
- said plurality of mutually separated cutter blades are caused to intersect said hair introduction openings of said outer cutter at different angles;
- said shaver is a reciprocating electric shaver;
- said outer cutter is made of a thin metal plate that is formed with a plurality of hair introduction openings and is bent in an arch shape;
- said inner cutter is made of a thin metal plate that is bent in an arch shape, said inner cutter being formed with a plurality of mutually separated cutter blades and side end portions that connect both ends of said plurality of mutually separated cutter blades, and said inner cutter blades making a reciprocating motion within said arch-shaped outer cutter;
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- each of said plurality of mutually separated cutter blades of said inner cutter has a plurality of bent regions having different inclinations with respect to a lateral direction of the inner cutter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.