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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2024
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Akinori Hanada, Nagoya, JP;
Shinji Ukai, Kiyosu, JP;
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Nagoya, JP;
Abstract
A printing device includes a housing, a mounting compartment, a printing unit, and a cover attachable to the housing. A tape cassette accommodating a printing tape is mountable in the mounting compartment in a mounting direction. A platen gear of the printing unit and an output gear of the tape cassette are helical gears configured such that a thrust load is applied to the output gear in the mounting direction at a mesh point therebetween while rotating. The cover has a restriction part configured to contact the mounted tape cassette while the cover is closed to restrict the tape cassette from rotating by the thrust load about an axis passing through first and second support parts provided at the mounting compartment. The restriction part is positioned in a region on an opposite side of the axis from the mesh point when viewed in the mounting direction.
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