Patent ID: 8651756
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
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 within the housing; an exit of the housing from which the tape is discharged, the tape being guided within the housing along a tape feed path to said exit, at least a portion of the tape feed path extending parallel to said front surface; and a specified area of the front surface upstream of the exit in a feed direction of the tape including an indicator portion for indicating a tape type, said specified area being adjacent to said exit and including at least two through holes with at least one of the at least two through holes being a latching through hole and at least one of the at least two through holes defining at least a portion of an information section, at least a portion of one of the at least two through holes directly facing a surface of the tape; and an additional information section formed as an indented section of the housing, said indented section being indented rearward from the front surface and also indented upward from a lower edge of the housing.