Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-kaisha

Brother Industries, Ltd.

Kentaro Murayama

Haruki Matsumoto

Harumitsu Inoue

Shinji Ukai

Yukihiko Sato

Yukiko Takami

Kosuke Higashi

Yuji Goto

Shota Iijima

Tsutomu Kato

Kohei Terada

Shinya Yamamoto

Tomoaki Hattori

Tetsuya Okano

Junya Kawai

Osamu Takahashi

Kengo Takeda

Yutaka Kakigahara

Jun Mihara

Takaaki Banno

Satoshi Murata

Shuhei Nohara

Takayuki Higuchi

Naoto Ito

Tatsuya Ezaka

Emi Shimizu

Kumiko Sakaguchi

Hiromitsu Mizutani

Yuya Tagami

Daisuke Baba

Kazuyuki Katagiri

Yuji Hayashi

Akihiro Yamada

Naohisa Kinoshita

Ryuichi Kanda

Minako Ishida

Takashi Ohmiya

Takanori Izumi

Kazuhiro Yamagata

A cassette includes a printing tape roll being rotatable and into which a printing tape as a medium to be printed is wound, and an outer peripheral wall disposed on one side in a first direction relative to the printing tape roll. The first direction is a width direction of the printing tape. The outer peripheral wall includes a first side wall extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a second side wall extending in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and intersecting with the second direction, and a recess wall defining a recess extending from the second side wall toward one side in the second direction. The recess extends in the third direction on one side in the second direction further than the second side wall. At least a portion of the recess overlaps the printing tape roll in the first direction.

Cassette

A print cassette includes a print tape roll in which a print tape is wound around a winding central axis parallel to a first direction, an input gear to which a driving force is to be input from outside, an idle gear directly or indirectly engaging the input gear and the output gear to transmit the driving force input to the input gear to the output gear. At least a portion of the input gear, at least a portion of the output gear, and at least a portion of the idle gear each overlap the print tape roll in the first direction.

Print cassette

A printing apparatus includes a printing apparatus main body, and a print cassette attachable to and detachable from the printing apparatus main body. The print cassette includes a roll of a first tape, a supply spool rotatable about a rotation axis, a second tape wound around the supply spool and used for printing or protecting of the first tape, an output gear to output a driving force outside, an input spool rotatable about a rotation axis. The supply spool, the output gear, and the roll are disposed in order of the supply spool, the output gear, and the roll in the axial direction of the rotation axis of the supply spool.

Printing apparatus and print cassette

A printing cassette is attachable to a printer body including a cassette accommodating portion provided with a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion. The printing cassette includes a power transmission mechanism including an input rotational part and an output rotational part, and a guide case accommodating the power transmission mechanism therein. The guide case has a guide portion configured to guide a printing tape, a first side surface and a second side surface interposing the power transmission mechanism therebetween, a first engagement surface engageable with the first engaging portion, and a second engagement surface engageable with the second engaging portion. A first imaginary straight line is defined in the printing cassette, the first imaginary straight line passing through the first engagement surface and the second engagement surface and being interposed between a rotation axis of the input rotational part and a rotation axis of the output rotational part.

Printing cassette having structure for restraining power transmission loss, and printing device using the same

An auxiliary tape cassette is attachable to a printing device body together with a printing tape cassette. The printing tape cassette includes a printing tape and a printing-tape-cassette rotation transmission member. The auxiliary tape cassette includes an auxiliary tape, an auxiliary-tape-cassette rotation transmission member, and a case. The auxiliary tape is used for printing on the printing tape. The auxiliary-tape-cassette rotation transmission member is connectable to the printing-tape-cassette rotation transmission member of the printing tape cassette. The case accommodates therein at least a part of the auxiliary-tape-cassette rotation transmission member and at least a part of the auxiliary tape.

Auxiliary tape cassette including rotation transmission member, auxiliary tape, and case accommodating at least part of rotation transmission member and at least part of auxiliary tape

An auxiliary tape cassette includes: an auxiliary tape; and a case. The auxiliary tape is used for printing on a printing tape. The case accommodates therein at least a part of the auxiliary tape. The case has: a discharge opening; and a guide part. The discharge opening discharges the printing tape to an outside. The guide part guides the printing tape supplied from an outside of the case toward the discharge opening. The guide part has a curvature forming member that causes the printing tape to be curved such that a portion in a width direction of the printing tape is distended in a thickness direction by contacting the printing tape.

Auxiliary tape cassette including case having curvature forming member that causes printing tape to be curved

A printing cassette includes: a case including a first case portion, a second case portion, and a third case portion; a first tape, at least a portion of which is accommodated in the third case portion; and a gear, a portion of which is accommodated in the second case portion and the other portion of which is located outside of the case, the gear being rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to a first direction. The first case portion has an outlet through which the first tape is discharged. The first case portion, the second case portion, and the third case portion are disposed in an order of the first case portion, the second case portion, and the third case portion in the first direction.

Printing cassette with gear

A printing cassette that is attached to a printer main body, the printer main body including a print head, a platen roller facing the print head, and a drive source configured to cause the platen roller to rotate, the printing cassette comprising: a first tape on which printing is performed by the print head; an input unit that is rotatable around a rotation axis thereof and is transmitted a driving force from the drive source; and an output unit that is rotatable around a rotation axis thereof and is configured to transmit to the platen roller the driving force that is transmitted to the input unit, wherein the first tape is conveyed by the platen roller in a state where the printing cassette is attached to the printer main body.

Printing cassette and printer

A printing device includes: an attachment portion to which a cassette accommodating a printing medium is detachably attachable; a conveying portion for conveying the printing medium; a printing portion for printing the printing medium; a cutter portion for cutting the printed printing medium; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: a conveying process to convey the printing medium from the printing portion to the cutter portion; a cutting process to cut the printed printing medium; an acquisition process to acquire the control information from the cassette; a determination process to determine a reverse conveyance amount of the printing medium based on the control information; and a reverse conveying process to convey a remaining non-printed portion of the printing medium from the cutter portion to the printing portion by the reverse conveyance amount determined in the determination process.

Printing device configured to determine reverse conveyance amount of printing medium based on control information acquired from cassette, and cassette attachable to the printing device

A cassette includes: a case including a first layer and a second layer and having a head space at the first layer; and a roll disposed at the second layer and into which a medium to be printed is wound about a rotation axis in a winding direction. The medium to be printed includes a to-be-printed layer and a release layer, and is disposed at the case such that the to-be-printed layer is on an inner side thereof and the release layer is on an outer side thereof in the winding direction. The case has a conveyance path for conveying the medium to be printed. The conveyance path is defined such that the medium to be printed is conveyed in the winding direction from the roll to the head space through an opening defined at a boundary between the first layer and the second layer in the case.

A cassette includes: a printing tape roll into which a printing tape as a medium to be printed is wound; a feed spool being rotatable and around which an ink ribbon to be used for printing on the printing tape is wound; and a take-up spool being rotatable to take up the ink ribbon fed from the feed spool. The feed spool and the take-up spool are located on one side in a first direction with respect to the printing tape roll. The first direction is a width direction of the ink ribbon wound around the feed spool. At least a portion of the feed spool and at least a portion of the take-up spool overlap the printing tape roll in the first direction.

In a print device, the conveyance member conveys a tape on which printing is performed. The tape has a base material and a release material bonded together. The tape includes a print portion on which an image is printed by the head. The printed tape is used to create a printed matter. The half cutter performs a half cut to cut through the release material without cutting through the base material. The full cutter performs a full cut to cut through the tape conveyed by the conveyance member. The controller controls the half cut so that the half cutter cuts through the release material at a position downstream side of a most downstream end of the print portion of the printed tape, which is conveyed by the conveyance member and is printed by the head, in a conveying direction of the tape.

Print device having half cutter cutting through release material of tape without cutting through base material bonded to the release material

Tape cassette for label printer

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Kasugai, Japan

Kentaro Murayama