Patent ID: 7584541

Claim:
A rotary electric shaver comprising a substantially disc-shaped outer cutter, which is formed with a multiplicity of hair introduction openings and held in an upper part of a shaver main body housing therein a motor, and an inner cutter, which while elastically contacting an inner surface of said outer cutter is rotationally driven by said motor, said shaver further comprising: an outer cutter frame provided on said shaver main body; and a skin protection rim which is interposed between said outer cutter frame and said outer cutter so as to hold said outer cutter and is elastically provided so as to be depressible with respect to said outer cutter frame; and wherein said skin protection rim is elastically provided so as to be pivotable and depressible with respect to said outer cutter frame; said skin protection rim is held in said outer cutter frame at two supporting points provided on a straight line that passes through a rotational axis of said inner cutter and is perpendicular to said rotational axis, and said two supporting points are depressible with respect to said outer cutter frame; said two supporting points are projections formed on one of an outer circumference surface of said skin protection rim and the outer cutter frame, and said projections are engaged with concavities formed in another one of said outer cutter frame and said outer circumferential surface of said skin projection rim so as to allow said skin projection rim to make a rocking motion and movable up and down in vertical direction with respect to said outer cutter frame, and wherein each of said concavities formed in said outer cutter frame is provided therein with spring means for urging pushing said projection upward.