Printing cassette
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinji Ukai
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Abstract
A printing cassette that is to be attached to and detached from a printing apparatus main body is provided. The printing cassette includes: a first roll in which a first tape is wound around a winding center axis parallel to a first direction; and an input gear that is disposed at a different position from the first roll in the first direction, engaging another gear, and configured to transmit a driving force of a drive shaft of the printing apparatus to the another gear. The first roll has a cylindrical shape in which a hollow portion is defined by an inner peripheral surface. The drive shaft is inserted into the hollow portion of the first roll and the input gear is engaged with the drive shaft in a state where the printing cassette is attached to the printing apparatus main body.
Claims6
A printing cassette comprising:
- an ink ribbon roll including an ink ribbon;
- a supply spool rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction, the ink ribbon being wound around the supply spool;
- a take-up spool rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction, the take-up spool allowing the ink ribbon from the ink ribbon roll to be wound, the take-up spool having a hollow portion;
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- an input gear that is disposed at a different position from the take-up spool in the first direction,
- wherein the take-up spool includes a spool-side tooth positioned inside the hollow portion,
- wherein the input gear includes a gear-side tooth, and
- wherein a diameter of an inscribed circle of the spool-side tooth is larger than a diameter of an inscribed circle of the gear-side tooth.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.