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 a protrusion 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, 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 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 portion 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 tape type of the tape and including at least one first surface portion and at least one second surface portion arranged in a pattern corresponding to the tape type, each of the at least one second surface portion being a surface portion located between the at least one first surface portion and the portion of the feed path in a direction that is generally orthogonal to the front surface, wherein the type indicator portion includes a plurality of strip-shaped vertical information sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction, each of the plurality of vertical information sections includes one of the at least one first surface portion and the at least one second surface portion, and a first vertical information section is positioned at an interval from the tape exit toward an upstream side in the feed direction, the first vertical information section being a vertical information section located on a most downstream side in the feed direction among the plurality of vertical information sections.