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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2012
Applicant:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya, JP;
Inventor:
Hisako Tonishi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Assignee:
Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nagoya-Shi, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/325 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The tape cassette used in a tape printing apparatus incorporates an ink ribbon including a thermal printing layer including a coloring layer containing wax and pigment coated on a base film and an adhesive layer coated on the coloring layer, and a congealing point of the thermal printing layer is controlled to be 89 degrees Celsius or higher and difference between a glass transition point of the thermal printing layer and a melting point of the thermal printing layer is controlled to be 23 degrees Celsius or smaller.