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Tape cassette

US8382389B2 · kind B2 · utility

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19Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateDec 22, 2009
Grant dateFeb 26, 2013
Priority date
Expiry dateMar 14, 2031

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB41J35/36
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a pair of side surfaces, a tape that is a print medium housed in the housing, a tape exit that discharges, from the housing, the tape guided in the housing along a predetermined feed path, at least a part of the feed path extending parallel to the front surface, and a type indicator portion provided adjacent to the tape exit and in a specified area of the front surface on an upstream side of the tape exit in a feed direction of the tape, the type indicator portion indicating a type of the tape and including vertical information sections and an aperture formed in at least one of the vertical information sections, the vertical information sections being strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction.

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