TAPE CARTRIDGE AND TAPE FEEDING APPARATUS

摘要

Provided is a tape cartridge or the like that prevents detection target portions from contacting a finger or the like when an exposed area is provided in a cartridge case to cause the detection target portions of a tape-shaped member to be exposed. A tape cartridge includes a label tape 101 having a plurality of label portions 105 and a plurality of detection target portions 109 and a cartridge case and is installed in a tape feeding apparatus that feeds the label tape 101 based on the passage detection of the detection target portions 109 to separate the label portions 105 at a cut spot 112 on the label tape 101 at a cut position P3 outside the cartridge case. The cartridge case has an exposed area in which the respective detection target portions 109 are exposed, and a distance L1 between the cut position P3 and the upstream end of the exposed area is shorter than a distance L2 between a detection tip-end 109a of the detection target portion 109 corresponding to any of the label portions 105 and the cut spot 112 of the label portion 105 adjacent to the said label portion 105 on a paying-out tip-end side.

主权项

1. A tape cartridge to be installed in a tape printing apparatus having a cartridge installation portion and a cutting portion that cuts off a tape-shaped member, the tape cartridge comprising:
the tape-shaped member having
a plurality of label portions provided along a length direction of the tape-shaped member anda plurality of detection target portions provided along the length direction of the tape-shaped member so as to correspond to the plurality of label portions on one side thereof in a tape width direction and projecting in the tape width direction; and a cartridge case in which the tape-shaped member is accommodated so as to be capable of being paid out, wherein the cartridge case has an exposed area, in which the respective detection target portions are exposed to detect passage of the respective detection target portions, on a feed path of the tape-shaped member, and a distance between a cut position of the cutting portion and an upstream end of the exposed area is shorter than a distance between an end on a paying-out tip-end side of the detection target portion corresponding to any of the label portions and the cut spot of another of the label portions adjacent to the label portion concerned on the paying-out tip-end side in a tape feeding direction.