Tape printer
US8562228B2 · kind B2 · utility
Assignee
Inventors
Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 22, 2009 |
| Grant date | Oct 22, 2013 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 26, 2031 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB41J33/14
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A tape printer includes a tape cassette including a housing, a cassette housing portion, a feeding device, a printing device, a plurality of detecting switches that protrude toward a side surface of the housing of the tape cassette installed in the cassette housing portion, a first determining device that, if a part of the detecting switches is pressed, determines that the tape cassette is installed, and a second determining device that, if a specific detecting switch among the detecting switches is pressed, determines that the tape cassette is not installed at a proper position. The tape cassette includes a first pressing portion that, if the tape cassette is installed at the proper position, presses a part of the detecting switches, and a second pressing portion that, if the tape cassette is not installed at the proper position, presses the specific detecting switch.
Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.