Electric shaver
View Patent ↗An electric shaver includes an outer blade having blade holes defined by a frame, and an inner blade provided inside the outer blade to move relative to the outer blade and cut body hair inserted into the blade holes. Circumferences of the blade holes of the frame are bent toward the inner blade so as to provide hair lifting portions having rounded portions in the frame, and the frame provided with the hair lifting portions is located closer to a skin than to a surface of the inner blade on a skin side.
1. An electric shaver, comprising:
an outer blade including a frame having blade holes therein; and
an inner blade provided inside the outer blade to move relative to the outer blade and cut body hair inserted into the blade holes,
wherein circumferential edges of the blade holes of the frame are bent toward the inner blade so as to provide hair lifting portions, the hair lifting portions having edges and rounded portions in the frame,
wherein the hair lifting portions are provided in portions of the circumference of the blade holes, and
wherein the bent circumferential edges providing hair lifting portions comprise a pair of bent circumferential edges provided on the circumference of the blade hole facing each other and located perpendicularly to the moving direction of the inner blade, portions other than the bent circumferential edges are provided with edges to shave the body hair.
2. The electric shaver according to claim 1 , wherein the frame is formed into an inverse tapered shape in cross-section and the edges having an acute angle.
3. The electric shaver according to claim 2 , wherein the edges the frame project further above a level of a middle portion of the frame.
4. The electric shaver according to claim 3 , wherein the frame is provided with projections extending toward the inner blade.
5. The electric shaver according to claim 2 , wherein the edges provided in the frame extend toward the blade holes.
6. The electric shaver according to claim 1 , wherein a space is provided between the frame provided with the hair lifting portions and the inner blade.
7. The electric shaver according to claim 1 , wherein the frame provided with the hair lifting portions is inclined to the surface of the inner blade on the skin side.