Patent ID: 8819946

Claim:
An electric shaver in which a blade head which comes into contact with skin to cut hair is connected to a grip portion, and the blade head includes a plurality of slide blade assemblies each having an outer blade having a plurality of openings through which the hair is introduced inside of the blade head, and an inner blade which slides along an inner face of the outer blade, wherein a support arm is supported on one end of the grip portion to make a first rocking motion and projects from the one end in a state where a projecting amount of the support arm from the grip portion varies in accordance with an external force received by the blade head, both ends of the blade head are supported by the support arm such that the blade head assembly makes a second rocking motion around an axis extending along a reciprocating direction of the inner blade, below a support portion of the blade head, the support arm is rockably supported by first and second float guides, and the support arm is connected to the grip portion via the first and second float guides, and the support arm makes the first rocking motion relative to the first and second float guides, the first float guide is provided with a first shaft which connects the first float guide and the support arm, the second float guide is provided with a second shaft which connects the second float guide and the support arm, the first rocking motion is achieved by one of the first shaft and the second shaft configured not to make a positional change with respect to the support arm, and the first shaft and the second shaft configured to make a positional change with respect to the grip portion, the first and second shafts are configured to make relative motion with each other, each of the first and second float guides is connected to the grip portion to make a positional change with respect to the grip portion, an axial direction of the first rocking motion of the support arm with respect to the grip portion is set in a direction intersecting with the reciprocating direction of the inner blade, and in accordance with the positional change of each of the first and second float guides with respect to the grip portion, a position of a rotational center of the first rocking motion of the support arm with respect to the grip portion changes.