US 11,884,087 B2
Tape cartridge
Mizuki Bizen, Matsumoto (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Dec. 23, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/560,946.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-215374 (JP), filed on Dec. 24, 2020; and application No. 2021-088708 (JP), filed on May 26, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0203737 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 32/00 (2006.01); B41J 32/02 (2006.01); B41J 2/32 (2006.01); B41J 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 32/02 (2013.01) [B41J 3/4075 (2013.01); B41J 15/04 (2013.01); B41J 15/044 (2013.01); B41J 32/00 (2013.01); B41J 2/32 (2013.01); B41J 17/32 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tape cartridge to be attached to a tape printing device having a detecting portion, the tape cartridge comprising:
a tape-like member including
a tape body having a first edge located in a first direction, which is one side in a width direction of the tape body, and
a detection projection portion projecting in the first direction from the first edge so as to be detected by the detecting portion and having a detection end at an end thereof in the first direction;
a guide portion that guides feeding of the tape-like member such that the tape-like member curves along a peripheral surface of a platen roller for feeding the tape-like member; and
a contact portion that makes contact with the detection end when the tape-like member is convex outwardly from the platen roller at a position where the tape-like member curves along the peripheral surface of the platen roller.