Patent ID: 7325311

Claim:
A reciprocating type electric shaver comprising an outer cutter that has an inverted U shape as seen from a side thereof and an inner cutter that makes a reciprocating motion while making sliding contact with an inside surface of the outer cutter, the shaver further comprising: an oscillator which is driven in a reciprocating motion by a motor installed inside a main body of said shaver; a central shaft which is provided in an upright position on said oscillator and rises toward an inside of said outer cutter; an inner cutter holder which is slidably disposed on said central shaft so that said inner cutter holder holds said inner cutter thereon and said inner cutter swings about a straight line that is perpendicular to a reciprocating direction of said inner cutter; and a spring which is compressively provided between said oscillator and said inner cutter holder; and wherein a swing center point at which said inner cutter is held swingable on said inner cutter holder is positioned on or higher than an upper edge of a sliding contact section of said inner cutter holder that makes sliding contact with said central shaft in a reciprocating direction of said inner cutter.