Patent 9833914 was granted and assigned to Panasonic on December, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The hair clipper of the present invention includes an adjusting device for adjusting a clipping height. The adjusting device includes an attachment, a handle ring, and a connection mechanism. The attachment is allowed to move in a predetermined moving direction relative to a blade block. The handle ring is allowed to rotate around a rotation axis extending along the moving direction. The connection mechanism moves the attachment with rotation of the handle ring. The connection mechanism includes a cam groove and a linking pin allowed to move along the cam groove. The cam groove includes a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The first side includes: plural step parts which are formed in different positions in the moving direction and extend in a direction perpendicular to the moving direction; and a slope part configured to connect the step parts.