Electric shaver

US10532473B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• The Braun Corporation · DE

Inventors

• Joachim Krauss · Seeheim-Jugenheim, DE
• Detlef Gleich · Friedrichsdorf, DE
• Wolfgang Stegmann · Frankfurt am Main, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 27, 2017
• Grant date: Jan 14, 2020
• Expiry date: Oct 2, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B26B19/282
• WIPO field: Machine tools
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The present invention relates to an electric shaver. More particularly, the present invention relates to an electric shaver comprising a handle and a shaver head including at least one cutter unit having a drivable cutter element and a shear foil, wherein the shaver head is connected to the handle by means of a support structure which in some cases may provide for some movability of the shaver head relative to the handle. The shaver head and/or the at least one cutter unit may have an elongated contour with a main axis extending transverse to the handles' longitudinal axis and substantially parallel to a cutting oscillation axis of the cutter element. The shaver head is spaced apart from the handle with a gap defined between a bottom face of the shave head and a top face of the handle, the gap forming a ring-shaped contraction in the outer contour of the shaver around the support structure and giving access to the support structure bridging the gap.