Tape cassette
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoshiro YAMAGUCHI, Akira SAGO
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Abstract
A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.
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A tape cassette comprising:
- a generally rectangular housing having a top wall and a bottom wall, the generally rectangular housing defining first and second corner portions disposed at opposite ends of the bottom wall;
- a first hole formed in the first corner portion, the first hole extending from the bottom wall toward the top wall;
- a roller provided in the first corner portion, the roller having a roller hole;
- a second hole formed in the second corner portion, the second hole extending from the bottom wall toward the top wall, the second hole having an elongated hole having a length greater than a width, the length extending along a first line connecting the first hole and the second hole;
- a double-sided adhesive tape wound around a first tape spool, the first tape spool being positioned in a first area, the first area being at one side with respect to a second line collecting the roller hole and the second hole;
- a film tape wound around a second tape spool, the second tape spool being on the second line;
- an ink ribbon wound around a ribbon spool, the ribbon spool being positioned in a second area, the second area being at the other side with respect to the second line;
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- a ribbon winding spool configured to wind the ink ribbon, the ribbon winding spool being positioned in the second area.
A tape cassette comprising:
- a generally rectangular housing having a top wall and a bottom wall, the generally rectangular housing defining first and second corner portions disposed at opposite ends of the bottom wall;
- a first hole formed in the first corner portion, the first hole extending from the bottom wall toward the top wall;
- a roller provided in the first corner portion, the roller having a roller hole;
- a second hole formed in the second corner portion, the second hole extending from the bottom wall toward the top wall, the second hole having an elongated hole having a length greater than a width, the length extending along a first line connecting the first hole and the second hole;
- a printing tape wound around a printing tape spool, the printing tape spool being positioned in a first area, the first area being at one side with respect to a second line connecting the roller hole and the second hole;
- an ink ribbon wound around a ribbon spool, the ribbon spool being positioned in a second area, the second area being at the other side with respect to the second line;
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- a ribbon winding spool configured to wind the ink ribbon, the ribbon winding spool being positioned in the second area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.