Brother Kogyo Kabushiki-Kaisha

Nippon Paint Compnay, Ltd.

Toray Industries, Inc.

Yasuhiro Shibata

Koshiro Yamaguchi

Takashi Horiuchi

Akira Sago

Teruo Imamaki

Tsuyoshi Nagae

Masato Kato

Yasuhiro Iriyama

Tsutomu Kato

Kengo Noda

Tomohiko Sugino

Kiyoshi Sugimoto

Susumu Murata

Takashi Higashi

Kiyotada Yasuhara

Atsuhiko Tounaka

Tomoyuki Kanda

Naoki Tanjima

Takamine Hokazono

Naruhito Muto

Yoshio Sugiura

Hirotsugu Unotoro

Susumu Maekawa

Yasunori Nakamura

Keizou Ishii

Minoru Yamamoto

Akihiro Ikeda

Toshiaki Shimakura

Takahiro Miwa

Nobuo Kato

Takashi Miki

Hiroshi Nishikawa

Yasuhiko Nakae

Hiroaki Date

Tsuyoshi Imamura

Kunihiko Takeuchi

Harunori Gouji

Katsuhiko Sho

Minoru Umino

Rie Tomita

Shoichi Mure

Shigeru Ishida

Yosuke Matsuki

Masahiko Akahori

Hongchuan Jing

Tetsurou Kajino

A tape cassette that includes a tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear wall, a front wall, and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape included at least partially within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit, and a first indicator aperture positioned on the front wall and a second indicator aperture position on a rear portion of the bottom surface. A position of the first indicator aperture on the front wall indicates a type of the tape included within the housing. A position of the second indicator aperture indicates a color of characters.

Tape cassette

A tape cassette that includes a housing having a front wall and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape at least partially included within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit, and tape type indicator apertures formed on the front wall of the housing. A combination of the tape type indicator apertures forms a pattern corresponding to a type of the tape at least partially included within the housing. The tape type indicator apertures include a first tape type indicator aperture and a second tape type indicator aperture, and the tape type indicator apertures are positioned such that the first tape type indicator aperture is not aligned with the second tape type indicator aperture in a direction orthogonal to the tape feed path and parallel to the front wall.

A tape cassette that includes a box-shaped cassette case whose outline being defined by a bottom wall, a top wall, and a side wall and including a plurality of corner portions, at least one tape contained within a tape containment area defined within the outline, a pair of cavities extending from the bottom wall and being provided between the tape containment area and the outline at opposite ends of a diagonal line connecting one of the corner portions to another of the corner portions, and a side face indicator portion provided in the side wall, indicating a type of the tape, and including a plurality of indicator portions disposed in a pattern in accordance with the type of the tape, each of the indicator portions being one of a switch hole and a surface portion.

A tape cassette includes a box-like housing, a tape mounted within the housing, a hole and a first indicator portion. The housing includes a top wall having a top surface, a bottom wall having a bottom surface and opposing the top wall, and a front wall having a specified height and being formed along peripheries of the top wall and the bottom wall. The hole is provided in the front wall. The first indicator portion includes at least one first aperture and indicates a first element among a plurality of elements of a type of the tape. The first indicator portion is provided in a portion, spaced from the front wall, of the bottom wall. The hole and the one first aperture is located to intersect a virtual line orthogonal to the front wall when viewing along a vertical direction orthogonal to the top wall and the bottom wall.

A tape cassette that includes a housing having a top surface, a bottom surface, a rear wall, a front wall, and a tape feed exit located on the front wall, a tape included at least partially within the housing and configured to be fed along a tape feed path extending to the tape feed exit, and a first indicator aperture positioned on the front wall and a second indicator aperture position on a rear portion of the bottom surface. A position of the first indicator aperture on the front wall indicates a type of the tape included within the housing. A position of the second indicator aperture indicates a color of characters.

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Okazaki, Japan

Yasuhiro Shibata