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1. A tape cartridge to be mounted in a tape printing apparatus provided with a cartridge mounting unit which has a mounting base portion and a mounting circumferential wall surrounding the mounting base portion and in which plural kinds of tape cartridges different from each other in the thickness in a mounting/unmounting direction can be mounted and plural push switches which project from the mounting circumferential wall at such positions that distances from the mounting base portion vary from each other according to thicknesses of the plural kinds of tape cartridges, the tape cartridge comprising:
plural detection target portions that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the tape cartridge and to be opposed to the plural respective push switches when the cartridge is mounted in or unmounted from the cartridge mounting unit, wherein each of the plural detection target portions has a slide portion that extends in the mounting/unmounting direction and operates the associated push switch while sliding when the cartridge is mounted in the cartridge mounting unit. |
