Seiko Epson Corporation

Tomoyuki Kubota

Taishi Sasaki

Haruki Sugawara

Akihiro Shintani

Naoya Nishimura

Hideki Sakano

Tetsu Nakayama

Shinsaku Kosuge

Saeko Inoue

Daisuke Sato

Hiroaki Tanaka

Kenichi Nakajima

Akio Ishimoto

Yasumasa Nakajima

Kenji Motai

Naohiko Aoyagi

An ink ribbon feeding mechanism includes a cartridge mounting section, a first paying out rotor which is inserted into a first paying out core when a cartridge is being mounted in the cartridge mounting section, and a plurality of rotor side engaging portions which are provided on the first paying out rotor and which engage with a plurality of core side engaging portions when the first paying out rotor rotates. The rotor side engaging portion has an butting portion. When the cartridge is being mounted in the cartridge mounting section, the core side engaging portion butts against the butting portion, one or the other of the first paying out core and the first paying out rotor rotates, the rotor side engaging portion is inserted into the core side insertion recessed portion. A plurality of the butting portions are provided in positions different from each other in a cartridge mounting direction.

Ink ribbon feeding mechanism and tape printing apparatus

A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a handling portion including an operating portion on a front surface and is a part to be handheld, and a main mechanism portion connected to a tip end side of the handling portion, in which the printing mechanism portion is built, in which the handling portion is formed in a constricted shape of which an intermediate portion of a longitudinal direction is constricted.

Tape printing device

Disclosed is a tape printing device including a cartridge installation part in which a first cartridge and a second cartridge different in shape when seen from an installation direction are alternatively installable, wherein the cartridge installation part has, when seen from the installation direction, an overlap region in which a first installation region that is an installation region for the first cartridge and a second installation region that is an installation region for the second cartridge overlap each other, and a non-overlap region composed of one of the first installation region and the second installation region.

Tape printing device and cartridge set

A printer cover is mounted on a tape printer that includes a plurality of housing faces that include a first housing face in which a first cavity opening portion of a cartridge mounting section into which a tape cartridge is mounted is formed and a lid member that openably closes the first cavity opening portion. The printer cover is an integrally formed body having elasticity. The printer cover has cover faces that include the first cover face that covers the first mounting-side housing face, and a first lid-exposure opening that is provided in the first mounting-side cover face and through which lid member is exposed.

Printer cover

A tape printing device that is vertically long and is able to be operated by being handheld including a handling portion that is a part to be handheld, a main mechanism portion in which a printing mechanism portion which is connected to a tip end side of the handling portion is built, and a handholding portion that is connected to a base end side of the handling portion and is used for being grabbed at the time of carrying, and the tape printing device is formed in a vertical long shape of which a ratio between the entire width of an outer shell and the entire length of the outer shell is approximately 1:2.

A tape printing device includes a cartridge mounting portion on which a tape cartridge is mounted, a detection unit that has a first detection member configured to be protruded from and retracted into a first detection opening provided on a bottom surface of the cartridge mounting portion, and detects a type of a printing tape accommodated in the tape cartridge, and a thermal head that performs printing on the printing tape. A portion of the first detection member, exposed from the first detection opening, is located outside the tape accommodating area and is provided at a position on a side of the tape accommodating area different from a side of a first area in a plan view when the tape cartridge is mounted on the cartridge mounting portion.

Tape printing device, tape cartridge, and tape cartridge set

A tape printer that includes: a cartridge loading portion to which a tape cartridge is loaded, the tape cartridge including a cartridge case and a platen roller accommodated in the cartridge case, the cartridge case having a positioning recess and a first detection target portion of which shape is varied depending on various types of tape cartridge; a platen shaft provided in the cartridge loading portion and inserted into the platen roller; a first detection unit provided in the cartridge loading portion, of which output changes depending on the shape of the first detection target portion; and a positioning projection provided at a position farther than the first detection unit with respect to the platen shaft in the cartridge loading portion when seen from a near side in a loading direction of the tape cartridge, and engaging with the positioning recess.

Tape printer

A tape cartridge mounted to a tape printer having a printing head, includes a cartridge case, a platen roller that is housed in the cartridge case and fees an ink ribbon and a printing tape pressed between the platen roller and the printing head, a tape delivery port that is provided in the cartridge case and feeds the printing tape, which is fed by the platen roller and separated from the ink ribbon, to outside of the cartridge case, and a delivery guide that has a first guide section at a side of the printing head and a second guide section at a side of the platen roller, which extend from edges of the tape delivery port to inside of the cartridge case while spreading apart from each other, and guides a distal end of the printing tape into the tape delivery port.

Tape cartridge

A tape cartridge which is mounted in a tape printing apparatus provided with a detection part, includes a tape-shaped member which has a detection protrusion of which a lateral side partially protrudes in a tape width direction and a cartridge case in which a tape roll formed by winding the tape-shaped member into a roll shape is contained. In the tape cartridge, an exposed area is provided outside the cartridge case, the exposed area being where the detection protrusion provided in the tape-shaped member delivered from the tape roll and fed in a length direction of the tape-shaped member is exposed, the cartridge case has a cover which covers the tape-shaped member delivered from the tape roll in a tape feeding upstream side from the exposed area, and the cover includes a first cover, a second cover and a position regulating part.

A vertically long tape printing device which can be operated by being handheld includes an operating portions, and a display portion, which are disposed in a longitudinal direction of the front surface of the device, and protruding portions which are provided on the front surface of the device and protrude to the front surface of the operating portions and the front surface of the display portion.

A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a main key operating portion configured with a plurality of groups of keys, andon a front surface, in which, among the plurality of groups of keys, and, a group of keyshaving a high frequency of operations is disposed at a position near a gravity center portion in a longitudinal direction, and the groups of keysandhaving a low frequency of operations are disposed at a position distant from the gravity center portion in the longitudinal direction.

A tape cartridge including a tape member, a tape core on which the tape member is wound, and a cartridge case in which the tape member and the tape core are accommodated. The tape member includes a folded tape main body having a print portion on a first side of the fold and a non-print portion on a second side of the fold. The folded tape main body includes an adhesive layer that pastes the print portion and the non-print portion together. An outermost surface of the print portion forms a print surface. The adhesive layer is provided on an inner surface of the print portion. A first release agent layer is provided abutting the adhesive layer. A second release agent layer is provided on an inner surface of the non-print portion such that the second release agent layer contacts the adhesive layer and the first release agent layer.

Tape-like member, tape cartridge, and tape printing device

A print medium, on which individual labeling information made up of one or more labeling elements that are selectively shown, of common labeling information made up of a plurality of labeling elements, is formed by a printing device, wherein the common labeling information is printed in advance and a background color of an area where at least a plurality of labeling elements is printed is a print color that is printable by the printing device, is disclosed.

Print medium, printing device, and printing method for printing device

A tape cartridge configured to mounted in a tape printing apparatus includes: a cartridge case, a tape-shaped member contained in the cartridge case, an ink ribbon contained in the cartridge case, a roller contained rotatably in the cartridge case and is configured to feed the tape-shaped member outside the cartridge case by rotation, and is movable to a tape feeding upstream side in association with a retracting of the tape-shaped member into the cartridge case, a retracting prevention part cantilevered by the cartridge case on the tape feeding upstream side from the roller, and holds the tape-shaped member together with the roller moved to the tape feeding upstream side, and a ribbon guide part which is provided in the retracting prevention part. the retracting prevention part includes: a tape holding part, and an upstream base end provided at a base end of the tape holding part.

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Matsumoto, Japan

Tomoyuki Kubota