Patent ID: 8104181

Claim:
An outer blade for a reciprocation-type electric shaver which includes the outer blade and an inner blade reciprocating inside of the outer blade, the outer blade comprising: a sheet material, which forms the outer blade, bent into a shape projecting upward when viewed in lateral directions; the sheet material having hair introduction holes through the sheet material in thickness directions thereof, the peripheral edge of each hair introduction hole forming a projection section projecting inward beyond a thickness of the sheet material and terminating at a free end thereof, a part of the projection sections each having a shape in which the free end of the projection section makes contact with the inner blade of the reciprocation-type electric shaver reciprocating to cut a hair inserted through the corresponding hair introduction hole; and the sheet material is formed with a deformation suppression section extending in a direction in a specific region that includes the projection sections which make no contact with the inner blade and do not include the projection sections which make contact with the inner blade, and the projection sections included in the deformation suppression section are crushed by pressing from the inside of the sheet material.