Abstract: A rotary electric shaver including a substantially disc-shaped outer cutter 18 having hair introduction openings and held in the upper part of the shaver main body 50 housing therein a motor, and an inner cutter that, while elastically contacting the inner surface of the outer cutter 18, is rotationally driven by the motor; and the shaver further including an outer cutter frame 14A provided on the shaver main body 50, and a skin protection rim 16 that is interposed between the outer cutter frame 14A and the outer cutter 18 to hold the outer cutter 18 and is elastically provided so as to be depressible with respect to the outer cutter frame 14A.

Abstract: A rotary electric shaver including a shaver main body, an outer cutter frame attached to the shaver main body and provided with a plurality of circular outer cutter attachment holes, outer cutters formed on the shaving surfaces with hair introduction openings and provided in the outer cutter frame so as to be displaceable inside the outer cutter attachment holes, and inner cutters rotationally driven so as to slide against the outer cutter surfaces formed on the inner surfaces of the shaving surfaces of the outer cutters for cutting hair; wherein an outer cutter mounting hole, formed as a single opening with at least two of the outer cutter attachment holes connected, is provided in the outer cutter frame, and the outer cutters are provided in the outer cutter frame so as to be displaceable inside the outer cutter mounting hole.

Abstract: A rotary electric shaver including a substantially disc-shaped outer cutter 18 having hair introduction openings and held in the upper part of the shaver main body 50 housing therein a motor, and an inner cutter that, while elastically contacting the inner surface of the outer cutter 18, is rotationally driven by the motor; and the shaver further including an outer cutter frame 14A provided on the shaver main body 50, and a skin protection rim 16 that is interposed between the outer cutter frame 14A and the outer cutter 18 to hold the outer cutter 18 and is elastically provided so as to be depressible with respect to the outer cutter frame 14A.

Abstract: An electric shaver including first and second oscillators that convert rotational driving, which is supplied from a driving motor via joint portions that are connected to each other in a plurality of locations in the height direction of the shaver, into reciprocating driving that is oriented in mutually opposite directions and transmit this reciprocating driving to cutter units. The first and second oscillators are connected to first and second eccentric pins which are installed in upright at positions where phases are substantially opposite above and below the eccentric joint portions.

Abstract: A beverage maker including an extract liquid receptacle for accumulating therein extract liquid which is extracted by a beverage extractor, and a cooling liquid reservoir for accommodating therein cooling liquid that contacts the extract liquid with the wall of the extract liquid receptacle in between; and the beverage maker further including a stirring vane for stirring the extract liquid inside the extract liquid receptacle, and a vane drive unit for driving the stirring vane.

Abstract: A beverage maker including: a scatter 70 and an ice beverage extraction funnel 50 that are selectively held in a main body unit 10 in a rotatable manner; a hot beverage extraction funnel 76 held in the main body unit 10 in the hot beverage extraction mode for receiving hot water dripped by the scatter 70; a cooling liquid reservoir 52B held in the main body unit 10 in the ice beverage extraction mode for cooling an extract liquid collector unit 52A that receives hot extract liquid from the ice beverage extraction funnel 50 and for cooling the extract liquid; and rotatable stirring members 50A and 50B extending into at least one or other of the extract liquid collector unit 52A and cooling liquid reservoir 52B.

Abstract: An electric shaver including a cutter frame; an outer cutter disposed inside the cutter frame and is composed of a shaving surface having hair introduction openings, a side wall formed in continuous to the shaving surface, and corner slits formed in the side wall so as to communicate with the hair introduction openings; and an inner cutter having a plurality of inner cutter bodies that make sliding contact with an inside surface of the shaving surface of the outer cutter; wherein the electric shaver is provided with an upright member which is disposed between the side wall and side end surfaces of the inner cutter bodies that face the side wall and is disposed upright in a direction perpendicular to the shaving surface of the outer cutter. The tip end portion of upright member can protrude further toward the shaving surface than the end portions of the corner slits.

Abstract: An electric shaver including a shaver main body and a cutter head, which is installed on the upper portion of the shaver main body and has cutter units each having an outer cutter and an inner cutter that reciprocates while making sliding contact with the inside surface of the outer cutter, in which at least one cutter unit is provided with a foil-form outer cutter, and such cutter unit having the foil-form outer cutter is provided so as to be movable, within the cutter head, between a standard position and a predetermined upper or lower position so that the cutter unit is fixed in place at one of the standard, upper and lower positions.

Abstract: A rotary type electric shaver including an outer cutter and an inner cutter which is rotationally driven while making sliding contact with the interior surface of the outer cutter, wherein and the gap between the outer circumferential side surface of the outer cutter and the rotating side surface of the inner cutter varies in circumferential positions of the outer cutter, so that the gap between the outer circumferential side surface of the outer cutter and the rotating side surface of the inner cutter varies from wide portion to narrow portion.

Abstract: An outer cutter of a reciprocating type electric shaver in which an inner cutter makes sliding contact with an inside surface of a curved portion of the outer cutter, the curved portion being formed by bending a thin metal plate, which has numerous hair entry apertures, into a curved shape; and the curved portion being provided at both ends thereof with blocking portions that cover both ends of a space defined by the curved portion so as to prevent cut hair from being discharged to outside of the outer cutter, the blocking portions being formed integral with the curved portion.

Abstract: A reciprocating electric shaver in which a plurality of elongated cutter blades (122) of an arch-form inner cutter (102) make a reciprocating motion while making sliding contact with an arch-form outer cutter (100) that has a hair introduction openings, so that hair introduced into the hair introduction openings is cut by the cutter blades (122), wherein the inner cutter (102) is formed by bending into an arch shape a thin plate in which a pair of side edge portions (120) that are parallel to the reciprocating direction of the inner cutter and a plurality of cutter blades (122) that are connected at both ends to the side edge portions (120) are integrally formed, and at least a part of each one of the cutter blades is bent with respect to the direction of length of the cutter blades.

Abstract: An electric shaver with a cutter head that is equipped with a plurality of cutter units as movable units, and at least one cutter unit among these movable units being used after being fixed at a position where this cutter unit has been moved upward or downward from a standard position.

Abstract: An outer cutter formed with hair introduction slits and attached to an electric shaver in a substantially inverted U-shape, in which recessed portions, in which the shaving surface side of the outer cutter is recessed, are provided adjacent to one or both end portions of the slits, so that the end portions of the slits are formed as hair introduction openings that introduce hair.

Abstract: An electric rotary shaver comprising: a cutter frame having a plurality of outer cutter holes, outer cutters disposed in outer cutter holes so as to be tiltable in any direction, and inner cutters rotatably disposed inside the outer cutters and connected to inner cutter drive shafts that are rotationally driven and urged in a direction that causes the inner cutter drive shafts to protrude outward; wherein a cutter retaining plate is provided inside the cutter frame so as to be on a main body side of the electric shaver, and fulcrum plates are tiltably shaft-supported in the cutter retaining plate so as to be positionally correspond to the outer cutter holes; and the outer cutters are shaft-supported in the fulcrum plates via supporting members in a direction that is perpendicular to the direction in which the fulcrum plates are shaft-supported by the cutter retaining plate, thus being tiltable.

Abstract: A reciprocating type electric shaver that includes an outer cutter, an inner cutter which has a plurality of cutter blades that make sliding contact with the inside surface of the outer cutter, and a driving mechanism which causes the inner cutter to make a reciprocating motion in the direction of length of the outer cutter; wherein the outer cutter is formed in a concave or inwardly curved shape so that the central portion in the lengthwise direction of the outer cutter is raised. The shaver can have two outer cutters side by side so that one of the outer cutters has the inwardly curved shape, and the other has a convex or outwardly curved shape or a rectilinear shape.

Abstract: An electric shaver including a cutter frame; an outer cutter disposed inside the cutter frame and is composed of a shaving surface having hair introduction openings, a side wall formed in continuous to the shaving surface, and corner slits formed in the side wall so as to communicate with the hair introduction openings; and an inner cutter having a plurality of inner cutter bodies that make sliding contact with an inside surface of the shaving surface of the outer cutter; wherein the electric shaver is provided with an upright member which is disposed between the side wall and side end surfaces of the inner cutter bodies that face the side wall and is disposed upright in a direction perpendicular to the shaving surface of the outer cutter. The tip end portion of upright member can protrude further toward the shaving surface than the end portions of the corner slits.

Abstract: A rotary type electric shaver including an outer cutter and an inner cutter which is rotationally driven while making sliding contact with the interior surface of the outer cutter, wherein and the gap between the outer circumferential side surface of the outer cutter and the rotating side surface of the inner cutter varies in circumferential positions of the outer cutter, so that the gap between the outer circumferential side surface of the outer cutter and the rotating side surface of the inner cutter varies from wide portion to narrow portion.

Abstract: A reciprocating type electric shaver including an outer cutter, an inner cutter in which a plurality of cutter blades that make sliding contact with the inside surface of the outer cutter are disposed on a cutter blade supporting body in a straight row in the direction of length of the outer cutter, and a driving mechanism that causes the inner cutter to make a reciprocating motion in the direction of length of the outer cutter; wherein the outer cutter is formed so as to deform into a curved shape such as a convex shape that protrudes outward or a concave shape that protrudes inward, and the cutter blade supporting body is formed so as to bend into a curved shape in conformity with the outer cutter.

Abstract: An electric shaver including a shaver main body and a cutter head, which is installed on the upper portion of the shaver main body and has cutter units each having an outer cutter and an inner cutter that reciprocates while making sliding contact with the inside surface of the outer cutter, in which at least one cutter unit is provided with a foil-form outer cutter, and such cutter unit having the foil-form outer cutter is provided so as to be movable, within the cutter head, between a standard position and a predetermined upper or lower position so that the cutter unit is fixed in place at one of the standard, upper and lower positions.

Abstract: An outer cutter of a reciprocating type electric shaver in which an inner cutter makes sliding contact with an inside surface of a curved portion of the outer cutter, the curved portion being formed by bending a thin metal plate, which has numerous hair entry apertures, into a curved shape; and the curved portion being provided at both ends thereof with blocking portions that cover both ends of a space defined by the curved portion so as to prevent cut hair from being discharged to outside of the outer cutter, the blocking portions being formed integral with the curved portion.