US 12,214,586 B2 · Printer and printing cassette

Abstract

A printer includes a print head, a platen roller facing the print head, a driving source, a drive shaft connected to be driven to the driving source and rotatable about a rotation axis thereof, a platen gear connected to be driven to the platen roller, and a cassette mounting portion at which the print head and the drive shaft are disposed. A printing cassette including a to-be-printed tape, an input unit, and an output unit connected to be driven to the input unit is mountable on the cassette mounting portion in an axial direction of the rotation axis of the drive shaft. In a state where the printing cassette is mounted on the cassette mounting portion, the drive shaft is engaged with the input unit and the platen gear is engaged with the output unit.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A printing cassette comprising:

a case;
a to-be-printed tape, at least a portion of which is accommodated in the case;
a first gear including a first internal gear and a first external gear, the first gear rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction;
a transmission gear or a transmission gear train engaging with the first external gear;
and
a second gear including a second external gear engaging with the transmission gear or the transmission gear train, the second gear being rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction, wherein:
an entirety of the first internal gear is accommodated in the case,
a portion of the second external gear is located outside the case;
and
the case has an opening such that the portion of the second external gear is exposed in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, through the opening.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Printer and printing cassette

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Printer and printing cassette

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