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US 2026/0091607 A1Published application
Tape cassette including ribbon roll and housing including first partition plate and arm
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorShinji UKAI
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Abstract
A tape cassette includes: a ribbon roll in which an ink ribbon is wound; and a housing. The housing has an opening space in which printing is performed using the ink ribbon. The housing includes a first partition plate and an arm. The arm has a discharge port allowing the ink ribbon to be discharged to the opening space through the discharge port. In the tape cassette, the ink ribbon has a leading part extending from an interior of the arm to an outside of the housing through both the discharge port and the opening space. The leading part has a leading edge positioned outside the housing.
Claims27
A tape cassette comprising:
- a ribbon roll in which an ink ribbon is wound, the ribbon roll being rotatable about a first rotational axis extending in a first direction;
- and
- a housing having an opening space in which printing is performed using the ink ribbon, the housing including:
- a first partition plate partitioning an internal space of the housing into a first space and a second space, the ribbon roll being positioned in the second space, the first space and the second space being arranged in the first direction;
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- an arm positioned on an opposite side of the first partition plate from the second space in the first direction, the arm having a discharge port allowing the ink ribbon to be discharged to the opening space through the discharge port;
- wherein the ink ribbon has a leading part extending from an interior of the arm to an outside of the housing through both the discharge port and the opening space, the leading part having a leading edge positioned outside the housing.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.