Patent ID: 8641304

Claim:
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 tape type of the tape and including a plurality of vertical information sections and a protrusion formed in at least one of the plurality of vertical information sections, the protrusion protruding forward from the front surface of the housing, and the plurality of vertical information sections being a plurality of strip-shaped sections extending along a direction orthogonal to the feed direction.