Patent ID: 7021845

Claim:
A tape printing device, comprising: a device body having a thickness and extending in a longitudinal direction and in a width direction which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; a cassette holding section formed in said device body on one end side portion in the longitudinal direction thereof to accommodate a tape cassette; a printing system that prints characters and/or letters on a tape-form recording medium accommodated in said tape cassette; a driving system that feeds said tape; and a battery holding section formed in said device body on the other end side portion in the longitudinal direction thereof to accommodate a plurality of batteries, at least two of said plurality of batteries being aligned end-to-end in the longitudinal direction of said device body, wherein said device body has a gripping portion formed on the other end side portion in the longitudinal direction, the width of the gripping portion of said device body being narrower than the width of said cassette holding section, and at least a part on the one end side, in the longitudinal direction of the device body, of said battery holding section overlaps at least a part on the other side of the cassette holding section, in the longitudinal direction of said device body.