Patent ID: 7753604

Claim:
An ink sheet cartridge comprising: an ink sheet for printing; a feed bobbin wound with said ink sheet; a take-up bobbin for taking up said ink sheet; and a bobbin case, constituted of an upper component and a lower component in a vertically dividable manner, rotatably storing said feed bobbin and said take-up bobbin, wherein a pawl is integrally provided with a projecting engaging portion on an outer side surface of either said upper component or said lower component, a groove having a guide for guiding said projecting engaging portion thereby bending said pawl and a stop portion fixing said projecting engaging portion upon restoration of the bending of said pawl is provided on either said lower component or said upper component, and said projecting engaging portion is formed to project from an outer side surface of said pawl in a direction perpendicular to a bending direction of said pawl.