Patent ID: 8382389
Filing Date: 2013-02-26
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
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 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 a plurality of vertical information sections and an aperture formed in at least one of the plurality of vertical information sections, the plurality of vertical information sections being a plurality of strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction.