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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2015
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Sakano, Matsumoto, JP;
Akihiro Shintani, Matsumoto, JP;
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A tape printing apparatus or the like is provided, in which both smoothness and high positioning accuracy can be realized when a tape cartridge is attached and detached. The tape printing apparatus includes a cartridge mounting portion on which a tape cartridge having a core shaft portion disposed on an inner peripheral side of a wound print tape is detachably mounted, a positioning protrusion portion which protrudes from the cartridge mounting portion and engages with an inner peripheral portion of the core shaft portion of the mounted tape cartridge, and a plurality of conductive contactors which are provided in the positioning protrusion portion, in which the plurality of conductive contactors are equally disposed in a peripheral direction in the positioning protrusion portion, and bias an inner peripheral surface of the engaged core shaft portion toward the outside in a radial direction.