Patent ID: 11912049
Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A cartridge to be installed in a tape printing device including a cartridge installation part, a printing head that is provided in the cartridge installation part and performs printing on a printing tape, and a device case, the device case having a device-side tape introduction port that introduces the printing tape from an outside to an inside of the device case and a device-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape to the outside of the device case, the cartridge comprising:
a tape path through which the printing tape introduced from the device-side tape introduction port is fed toward the device-side tape ejection port in a state in which the cartridge is installed in the cartridge installation part, and
a cartridge case having a cartridge-side tape introduction port that introduces the printing tape introduced from the device-side tape introduction port into the tape path and a cartridge-side tape ejection port that ejects the printing tape toward the device-side tape ejection port, wherein
the tape path has an introduction-side path on a side closer to the cartridge-side tape introduction port than a platen roller and an ejection-side path on a side closer to the cartridge-side tape ejection port than the platen roller,
the ejection-side path is bent with respect to the introduction-side path, and
the ejection-side path has a bending angle of 21° or more and 42° or less with respect to the introduction-side path.