Patent ID: 9539838
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: B41J

Claim:
1. A tape cassette, comprising: a housing having a top wall, a bottom wall, a front wall connected with the top wall at a top edge of the front wall and with the bottom wall at a bottom edge of the front wall, and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a rear portion of the bottom wall having a first indentation indented toward the top wall up to a first surface; a roller, wherein an axis of the roller is perpendicular to the top wall and the bottom wall and extends in a first direction; a tape included at least partially within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; tape type indicator apertures formed on the front wall, wherein a combination of the tape type indicator apertures forms a pattern corresponding to a type of the tape included at least partially within the housing, the tape type indicator apertures being opened on the front wall in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction; a latching aperture formed on the front wall, the latching aperture being positioned closer to the top edge of the front wall than the bottom edge of the front wall, the tape type indicator apertures and the latching aperture being positioned opposite of the roller with respect to the tape feed exit in the second direction; a bottom aperture formed on the first surface; a first wall extending from the bottom wall to the top wall, a second wall extending from the bottom wall to the top wall, and a connection portion extending from the bottom wall to the top wall, the first wall being positioned between the front wall and the second wall in the third direction, the connection portion connecting an upstream end portion of the first wall with an upstream end portion of the second wall, the upstream end portion of the first wall and the upstream end portion of the second wall being positioned opposite of the tape feed exit with respect to the tape type indicator apertures, the first wall, the second wall, and the connection portion surrounding an elongated opening extending from the top wall to the bottom wall behind the front wall; and a second surface provided in the connection portion and a third surface provided in a downstream end portion of the second wall, the downstream end portion of the second wall being positioned opposite of the upstream end portion of the second wall with respect to the tape type indicator apertures in the second direction, the bottom wall having a second indentation indented toward the top wall up to the second surface and a third indentation indented toward the top wall up to the third surface, wherein the tape type indicator apertures comprise a first hole and a second hole, the first hole is formed at the bottom edge of the front wall, the second hole is disposed between the tape feed exit and the first hole in the second direction, a first distance between the latching aperture and the top edge of the front wall is shorter than a second distance between the second hole and the top edge of the front wall, a portion of the latching aperture is positioned in a same position in the second direction as the first hole, a portion of the first indentation being positioned in the same position in the second direction as the first hole.