US 12,325,233 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. 18/180,384.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-036629 (JP), filed on Mar. 9, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0286301 A1, Sep. 14, 2023
Int. Cl. B41J 15/04 (2006.01); B41J 3/407 (2006.01); B41J 32/00 (2006.01)
CPC B41J 15/044 (2013.01) [B41J 3/4075 (2013.01); B41J 32/00 (2013.01)] 7 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 includes
a third case portion,
a first case portion configured to accommodate the tape roll between the first case portion and the third case portion and to be attached to and detached from the third case portion,
a second case portion that is separated from the first case portion, and
a fourth case portion that is separated from the first case portion, and
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, and
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,
are provided between the second case portion and the fourth case portion, wherein
a tape introduction path that introduces the tape inserted from the tape insertion port to the tape feed port is provided between the second case portion and the fourth case portion,
a feed projected portion is provided at an edge portion of the tape feed port so as to block the tape feed port in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and
a facing edge portion facing the feed projected portion and an inclined edge portion inclined with respect to the facing edge portion so as to introduce the tape inserted from the tape insertion port to the tape feed port are provided at an edge portion of the tape introduction path.