Tape cassette

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A tape cassette detachably mountable to a printer, said printer including a plurality of detecting switches and a platen holder having a latching piece, said cassette comprising:
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, mounted within the housing; a tape exit of the housing from which tape is discharged, the tape being guided within the housing along a predetermined feed path to said tape exit, at least a portion of the feed path extending parallel to said front surface; a tape type indicator portion on said front surface adjacent to and upstream of the tape exit and comprising a plurality of vertical strip-shaped information sections extending in a direction orthogonal to a feed direction of said tape, at least one of said vertical strip-shaped information sections providing a surface against which at least a terminal portion of one of said detecting switches presses when said tape cassette is mounted to said printer and at least one of said vertical strip-shaped information sections including an aperture through which a terminal portion of one of said detecting switches is inserted when said tape cassette is mounted to said printer; a reference aperture into which said latching piece is inserted; and a first vertical strip-shaped information section that is the most downstream among the plurality of vertical strip-shaped information sections, an upstream end of said reference as aperture being on an upstream side of said first vertical strip-shaped information section, wherein the tape type indicator portion includes a plurality of horizontal strip-shaped information sections extending parallel to the feed direction of the tape, an upper end of the reference aperture is positioned above the plurality of horizontal strip-shaped information sections, the plurality of vertical strip-shaped information sections and plurality of horizontal strip-shaped information sections intersecting in overlapping areas, at least one of said overlapping areas providing a surface against which at least a terminal portion of one of said detecting switches presses when said tape cassette is mounted to said printer and at least one of said overlapping areas including an aperture through which a terminal portion of one of said detecting switches is inserted when said tape cassette is mounted to said printer.