US 12,214,587 B2
Cartridge
Keisuke Taruya, Shiojiri (JP); Taishi Sasaki, Matsumoto (JP); and Akio Ishimoto, Shiojiri (JP)
Assigned to SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/180,639.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-036630 (JP), filed on Mar. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0286302 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 15/04 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/044 (2013.01) [B41J 3/4075 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cartridge configured to be mounted on a tape printer, the cartridge comprising:
a cartridge case configured to accommodate a tape roll around which a tape is wound, wherein
the cartridge case is provided with
a tape feed port through which the tape fed from the tape roll accommodated in the cartridge case is fed out of the cartridge case,
a tape insertion port into which the tape pulled out from the tape roll is configured to be inserted in a first direction from one end portion in a width direction of the tape, so that a leading edge of the tape comes out of the cartridge case from the tape feed port, when the tape roll is accommodated in the cartridge case,
a tape guide that is positioned in the first direction with respect to the tape insertion port and guides feeding of the tape by the tape printer,
the tape guide is provided with a tape contact portion that comes into contact with the tape fed to the tape feed port, and
a chamfered portion is provided at an end portion of the tape contact portion in a second direction opposite to the first direction.