Tape printing device and tape printing system
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsHideki Sakano, Akihiro Shintani
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Abstract
A tape printing device or the like in which the loading of a tape cartridge can be detected and in which the misalignment of the loaded tape cartridge can be restrained at the same time, is provided. A tape printing device includes: a cartridge loading section in which a tape cartridge is loaded in an unloadable manner; a push switch which is provided in the cartridge loading section and detects the loaded tape cartridge. The push switch has a stem which is energized in a protruding direction by a build-in spring, and the stem in an actuated state energizes the loaded tape cartridge in a direction intersecting with a loading direction.
Claims12
A tape printing device comprising:
- a cartridge loading section in which a tape cartridge is loaded in an unloadable manner;
- and
- a plurality of push switches provided in the cartridge loading section and configured to detect the loaded tape cartridge;
- wherein each push switch included in the plurality of push switches has a stem which is energized in a protruding direction by a built-in spring,
- the stem of each push switch included in the plurality of push switches, in an actuated state, energizes the loaded tape cartridge in a direction intersecting with a loading direction, and
- the stem of a first push switch included in the plurality of push switches protrudes in a first protruding direction and the stem of a second push switch included in the plurality of push switches protrudes in a second protruding direction that intersects the first protruding direction.
A tape printing device comprising:
- a cartridge loading section in which a tape cartridge is loaded in an unloadable manner;
- and
- a push switch which is provided in the cartridge loading section and detects the loaded tape cartridge;
- wherein the push switch has a stem which is energized in a protruding direction by a built-in spring,
- the stem, in an actuated state, energizes the loaded tape cartridge in a direction intersecting with a loading direction,
- the tape cartridge has an insertion opening in which a head cover covering a print head provided in the cartridge loading section is inserted, and
- the push switch is provided at an edge part of the head cover, and the stem energizes a corner part of the insertion opening corresponding to the edge part.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.