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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2001
Toshio Ikuta, Hikone, JP;
Shigetoshi Sakon, Hirakata, JP;
Tadashi Hamada, Sakai, JP;
Masakatsu Araki, Hikone, JP;
Abstract
A blade of an electric shaver is disclosed. The blade includes an interior blade detachably attached to a drive element of the electric shaver via an interior blade pushing-up means. The interior blade includes a horizontal surface, a vertical surface, and a relief surface provided between the horizontal surface and the vertical surface, and is elastically pushed upward by the interior blade pushing-up means. The blade further includes a sheet-shaped exterior blade having a plurality of blade apertures. A bottom surface of the exterior blade is elastically contacted with the horizontal surface of the interior blade by a pushing force of the interior blade pushing-up means. Upon driving the drive element, the interior blade is moved laterally such that the horizontal surface of the interior blade rubs against the bottom surface of the exterior blade, and hair introduced into the blade aperture of the exterior blade is held between the horizontal surface of the interior blade and the exterior blade in accordance with a lateral movement of the interior blade and cut by an edge of the exterior blade.