According to an aspect, there is provided a guard plate (10) for a blade set (100) for a hair cutting appliance, the guard plate comprising a skin-facing side (12) and an opposing blade-facing side; a plurality of close-cutting trimming teeth (16) distributed in a longitudinal direction along an edge (18) of the guard plate, each tooth extending from the edge of the guard plate to a respective tip (20), the close-cutting trimming teeth having a thickness of less than (120) microns; a raised section (22) comprising a curved shape in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction such that it is raised from the teeth towards the skin-facing side of the guard plate, wherein the curved shape of the raised section does not extend beyond a (30)-degree envelope defined by a line passing through the mg edge of the guard plate and offset from a tangent at the edge of the guard plate by (30) degrees; a pressure relenting zone (30) between the teeth and the raised section defining a continuous surface, wherein there is a transition (32) between the pressure relenting zone and the raised section such that, when the guard plate is passed over a user's taut skin, the skin does not directly follow the contours of the transition thereby locally reducing pressure from the skin; wherein a plurality of apertures (48) are distributed on the raised section at least within a pressure restoring zone (36) of the raised section, the pressure restoring zone being defined between a rising point and a tangent point, wherein the rising point is where a perpendicular distance from the skin-facing surface of the guard plate to a pressure relenting line peaks, wherein the pressure relenting line is defined by a tangent of the raised section in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the tangent passing through the edge of the guard plate, and wherein the tangent point is on the raised section at the tangent of the pressure relenting line.

A reciprocating electric razor head includes a fixed blade and a fixed blade support for supporting and fixing the fixed blade. The fixed blade is provided with hair entrance holes for body hair to enter, and an inner side of the fixed blade is provided with a movable blade capable of moving backward and forward in a reciprocating manner relative to the fixed blade to cut off the body hair inside the hair entrance holes, such that the fixed blade obtains a very flat cutting working face contacting the movable blade without the need for additional precision machining.

An outer blade for a hair cutting device, the outer blade being mounted to an end of a main body of the hair cutting device, includes bars that each have a shape of a rectangular stick and are arranged at predetermined intervals. The outer blade also includes, at a skin-surface-contact-side first face of each of the bars, an agent holding part configured to hold an agent that is a substance having a predetermined effect on a skin surface, the agent holding part being a surrounded recess heading from the skin-surface-contact-side first face of the bar toward an inner-blade-side second face of the bar. Thus, the agent such as foam or gel can be held by the agent holding part at the skin-surface-side face of the outer blade, and friction can be reduced between the outer blade and the skin surface by the agent held by the agent holding part.

Provided is a method of producing an outer blade for a hair cutting device from a material including bars that each have a shape of a rectangular stick and are arranged at predetermined intervals. The material is placed on a base. Next, a first tool having a leading end that has a gradually increasing width in a direction away from the material is used to press at least one part of each of the bars in a direction from a counter base-side first face of each of the bars toward a base-side second face of each of the bars. An edge of the first face of each of the bars is caused to project widthwise and to move toward the second face to be farther from an intermediate part of the first face.

An outer blade for an electric shaver has slits. With bars extending along an outer-blade width direction, each of the slits is defined by respective ends of the bars, the respective ends being positioned side by side along an outer-blade length direction, and is defined continuously from one end to another end in the outer-blade width direction. At least one of two bars that define the slit is provided with a lifter that lifts hair by contact. The lifter is formed partway along the slit and extends between edges of the slit along the outer-blade length direction when viewed along the outer-blade width direction.

Electric shaver provided with at least one cutter unit, a drive unit for driving said at least one cutter unit and a display device for displaying information, wherein said drive unit, when being active, is operable in different operation modes, wherein a mode input element is provided for switching the drive unit into different operation modes.

The present invention relates to cutting body hair such as beard stubble. More particularly, the present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer, with a pair of cooperating cutting elements with at least one row of comb-like cutting teeth. The cutting elements are movably supported relative to each other by a support structure. At least one of the cutting elements, when viewed in cross section, has a C-shape including a pair of dog-eared holding flanges attached to the support structure and a slightly dome shaped or flat center section. The row of comb-like cutting teeth are formed in a transitional section between the dog-eared holding flanges and the center section. The dog-eared holding flange at the transitional section may be provided with a step-like concave depression forming thinned-out tooth tips.

The present invention relates to a cutter system for an electric shaver and/or trimmer. The cutter system includes a pair of comb-like cutting elements with cooperating toothed cutting edges and movably supported relative to each other by a support element, wherein lateral ends of at least one of the cutting elements are provided with lateral protection elements having rounded and/or chamfered edge contours for soft skin engagement. The lateral protection element is integrally formed in one part with the cutting element by an end portion of the cutting element bent away from a skin contact surface thereof and enveloping a gap movably receiving the other cutting element and/or enveloping the support element.

A hair cutting appliance includes a mounting unit configured to couple a cutting unit to a housing. The mounting unit includes a swivel mechanism having a base portion configured to be coupled to the housing, and a top portion configured to be coupled to the cutting unit, where the base and top portions are movable with respect to each other, such that, during operation, the cutting unit is pivotably supported by the swivel mechanism, which defines a virtual pivot axis for the cutting unit. The virtual pivot axis is substantially parallel to a cutting edge of the cutting unit. In a first or shaving state of the swivel mechanism, the virtual pivot axis is located at a first position with respect to the cutting unit, and in a second or styling state, the virtual pivot axis is located at a second position that is different from the first position.

The invention relates to an electric shaver comprising at least a first long hair cutter element that is provided with a first under cutter and a first, non-foil type upper cutter, wherein one or both of the first under cutter and the first upper cutter oscillate relative to the other in a direction parallel to an axis (x) and at least one guard that is provided adjacent to the second upper cutter and extends parallel to axis (x), the guard is provided with a comb structure having several teeth each being provided with a skin contact top portion and several slots being provided between the teeth each being having a low portion for guiding the hair in between and wherein the comb structure is provided as a micro comb structure having a depth of the slots from the top portion of the teeth to the low portion of the slots ranging between 0.2 to 0.7 mm.