US 12,257,828 B2
Tape cassette
Shohei Tsuchimori, Nagoya (JP); Yukiko Takami, Inazawa (JP); and Takashi Horiuchi, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed by BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Nov. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/059,399.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-194171 (JP), filed on Nov. 30, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0166543 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 32/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/046 (2013.01) 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tape cassette configured to be mounted in a printer, the tape cassette comprising:
a housing having an outlet;
a tape spool held inside the housing;
a tape wound around the tape spool, the tape including a print surface and an opposite surface that is opposite to the print surface;
a first guide configured to guide the tape toward a detection position where tape information of the tape is detected by a sensor of the printer;
a second guide configured to guide the tape that has been conveyed through the detection position toward the outlet; and
a plurality of pins disposed at positions away from a straight line connecting the tape spool with the first guide, a conveyance path of the tape from the tape spool to the first guide is formed by contacting one of pins with the print surface of the tape and another one of the pins with the opposite surface of the tape.