Patent ID: 9498997
Filing Date: 2016-11-22
CPC Classification: B41J

Claim Text:
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.