Patent ID: 8096054

Claim:
A razor blade unit comprising a blade housing, in which several blades with cutting edges lying parallel to a skin contact plane are arranged; a coupling section, which is detachably connectable to a handle; said blade housing comprising two side walls extending transversely to the cutting edges, each side wall having an end face arranged in a direction substantially parallel to the cutting edges; a connecting section comprising at least one film hinge between the end faces of the side walls and the coupling section, said at least one film hinge defines a pivot axis extending parallel to the skin contact plane, and an elastic damping component, surrounding one or more sides of the at least one film hinge and said at least one film hinge being formed both on the blade housing and on the coupling section; and a foam edge, arranged in the blade housing and in front of the cutting edges of the blades with respect to a shaving direction to pretension a skin during shaving, wherein the pivot axis extending through the film hinge is positioned between a forward boundary of the foam edge with respect to the shaving direction and the cutting edge lying closest to the foam edge, wherein the at least one film hinge comprises two film hinges, and each film hinge is arranged on each end face of the side walls, and wherein each film hinge has two hinge sidepieces, which are surrounded by the damping component, extend from each film hinge.