Patent ID: 7178242

Claim:
An electric rotary shaver comprising a substantially circular disk forming an outer cutter, which has hair entry openings in a top surface thereof, and an inner cutter, which rotates while making sliding contact with an inner surface of said outer cutter, wherein said outer cutter is formed inside thereof with at least one concentric annuls track; and said inner cutter is comprised of: an inner cutter base comprising a boss that engages with a rotary shaft of said shaver and a cutter blade support that extends outward from said boss, said boss and said cutter blade support being coupled together to be integrally formed, and a plurality of cutter blade sections which are formed with a cutter blade that makes sliding contact with said at least two concentric annular tracks and which are provided on said cutter blade support; and wherein said cutter blade sections have cutter blades that are disposed side by side in a radial direction of said inner cutter and make a sliding contact with said annular tracks, said cutter blade sections being connected to each other to form at least one cutter blade ring; and each of said cutter blade sections is in a letter Y-shape and said cutter blades are formed in bifurcated portions of said Y-spaced cutter blade section, said cutter blade sections being connected to each other at connecting portions thereof to form said cutter blade ring.