Patent ID: 7143515

Claim:
An electric shaver comprising: a shaver main body, and a cutter head which is installed on an upper portion of said shaver main body and includes a plurality of cutter units each having an outer cutter and a floatably supported inner cutter that reciprocates while making sliding contact with an inside surface of said outer cutter, wherein at least one cutter unit of said plurality of cutter units is provided with a foil-form outer cutter, and said at least one cutter unit having said foil-form outer cutter is movable, within said cutter head, between a standard position and a predetermined upper or lower position so as to be fixed in place at one of said standard, upper and lower positions, thus forming a movable unit, and an angle of inclination of said cutter head with respect to said shaver main body is varied when said movable unit is moved to said predetermined position in a vertical direction from said standard position.