Patent ID: 8011843

Claim:
A system including a tape printer and a tape cassette used for the tape printer, the tape printer including: a tape transfer device that has a tape sub-roller and transfers a long length of tape; a printing device that has a thermal head and prints on the tape, the thermal head being distanced from a detector sensor by a first predetermined distance upstream in a tape transfer direction; and a cutting device which is distanced from the detector sensor upstream in the tape transfer direction by a second predetermined distance that is shorter than the first predetermined distance, and cuts the printed tape sent out, wherein the tape cassette which accommodates the tape and is mounted to the tape printer in a removable manner, comprises: a first tape spool winding a printing tape to be printed by the printing device, the first tape spool being arranged in a rotatable manner; a second tape spool winding a double-sided adhesive tape, of which one side is covered with a release paper to be adhered to one side of the printing tape, in such a manner that the release paper faces outward, the second tape spool being arranged in a rotatable manner; wireless information circuit elements positioned at a predetermined pitch in a longitudinal direction of the double-sided adhesive tape, each of which comprises an IC circuit part for storing information and an IC circuit side antenna connected to the IC circuit part to transmit and receive information; a tape feed roller, which in cooperation with the tape sub-roller of the tape printer draws out to transfer the printing tape and the double-sided adhesive tape respectively wound around the first tape spool and the second tape spool, and at the same time presses to adhere the printed printing tape to the double-sided adhesive tape; and sensor marks each of which is formed at a same pitch as the predetermined pitch in a longitudinal direction on an outer surface of the release paper, located downstream of each of the wireless information circuit elements in the tape transfer direction, and detected by the detector sensor, wherein the sensor marks and the wireless information circuit elements are continuously located so as to be distanced from each other by a predetermined distance in a longitudinal direction of the double-sided adhesive tape, and wherein each of the wireless information circuit elements is distanced by the second predetermined distance downstream from one of the sensor marks, which is adjoining thereto and positioned upstream in the tape transfer direction; whereby each of the wireless information circuit elements is closer to the one of the sensor marks than another of the sensor marks, which is adjacent thereto and positioned downstream in the tape transfer direction.