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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 17, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2016
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Taishi Sasaki, Suwa, JP;
Kenichi Nakajima, Suwa, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tape cartridge includes a tape-shaped member having a plurality of label portions along a length direction of the tape-shaped member and a plurality of detection target portions corresponding to the plurality of label portions on one side thereof projecting in the tape width direction, and a cartridge case in which the tape-shaped member is accommodated. The cartridge case has an exposed area, in which the detection target portions are exposed to detect passage of the detection target portions and a tape delivery port that is formed to eject the tape-shaped member to an outside of the cartridge case. A distance between the tape delivery port and an upstream end of the exposed area is shorter than a distance between an end on a paying-out tip-end side of the detection target portion and an end on a paying-out terminal-end side of another of the label portions.