Tape printing apparatus
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsShinsaku Kosuge, Taishi Sasaki
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Abstract
A tape printing apparatus including three holding protrusions that are provided on a mounting portion cover and that hold a cartridge mounted in a cartridge mounting portion, a displacement member that, when the cartridge is mounted in the cartridge mounting portion, is displaced from a protruded position to a lower-side position by having the cartridge abut against a cartridge abutment portion, and an elastic member that applies force to the displacement member towards an opposite direction to a mounting direction. In the tape printing apparatus, when viewed from the mounting direction, the cartridge abutment portion is provided inside a virtual holding triangle having holding distal end portions that are distal end portions of the three holding protrusions as apexes.
Claims6
A tape printing apparatus comprising:
- a cartridge mounting portion in which the cartridge is mounted;
- a mounting portion cover that opens/closes the cartridge mounting portion;
- three holding protrusions provided on the mounting portion cover, while in a state in which the cartridge is mounted in the cartridge mounting portion, when the mounting portion cover is closed, the three holding protrusions hold the cartridge;
- a displacement member that includes a cartridge abutment portion against which the cartridge abuts when the cartridge is mounted in the cartridge mounting portion, the displacement member being displaced from a protruded position, in which the displacement member protrudes from a mounting bottom surface or a bottom surface of the cartridge mounting portion, to a lower-side position, in which the displacement member is displaced from the protruded position towards an opposite direction to a mounting direction of the cartridge, by having the cartridge abut against the cartridge abutment portion;
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- an elastic member that applies force to the displacement member towards an opposite direction to the mounting direction, wherein
- when viewed from the mounting direction, the cartridge abutment portion is provided inside a virtual holding triangle having distal end portions of the three holding protrusions serve as apexes when the mounting portion cover is in a closed state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.