Patent ID: 8220157
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: B26B

Abstract:
1. A rotary electric shaver which is provided with a shaver main body and a head bottom plate disposed at a top of the shaver main body, the head bottom plate is coupled to a plurality of cutter assemblies dispose thereon, each of the plurality of cutter assemblies pivotally hold a respective one of a plurality of outer cutters and a plurality of inner cutters disposed therein, a plurality of inner cutter drive shafts projected from the head bottom plate are configured to engage a respective one of the plurality of inner cutters and rotatively drive the plurality of inner cutters while bringing the plurality of inner cutters into resilient contact with inner surfaces of the plurality of outer cutters, the rotary electric shaver comprising: a plurality of cutter circumferential rims, wherein each of the plurality of cutter circumferential rims has an opening and is separately provided for each of the plurality of outer cutters and surrounds an outer periphery of a respective one of the plurality of the outer cutters to support the respective one of the plurality of the outer cutters in the opening; and a plurality of pivotal supporting sections which each of the plurality of pivotal supporting sections pivotally and detachably retains a respective one of the plurality of cutter circumferential rims on a pivotal axis which passes a center of the respective one of the plurality of outer cutters; wherein an upper surface of the respective one of the plurality of cutter circumferential rims extends from a protruding portion of the respective one of the plurality of outer cutters in a direction of the pivotal axis out over a respective one of the plurality of pivotal supporting sections to define a width of the upper surface of the respective one of the plurality of cutter circumferential rims.