Tape cassette

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10576763-B2
Application number	US-201816112082-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 24, 2018
Priority date	Aug 25, 2017
Publication date	Mar 3, 2020
Grant date	Mar 3, 2020

Abstract

A tape cassette configured to accommodate a tape has a cassette case having first-sixth outer walls, a substrate having first and second surfaces. A storage is provided to the second surface. The third wall is formed with a first recess having a bottom wall, which is formed with a second recess or a hole. The substrate is arranged in the first recess with an adhesive layer being sandwiched between the bottom wall and the second surface. The storage or a molded part protecting the storage is arranged in the second recess or the hole. The first recess is formed with an opening part, at least a part of the adhesive layer being accessible through the opening part, and the cassette case is provided with a blocking member overlapping the one of the storage and the molded part in a first direction at the particular position.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A tape cassette configured to accommodate a tape, comprising:
a box-like cassette case having a first outer wall, a second outer wall, a third outer wall, a fourth outer wall, a fifth outer wall and a sixth outer wall,
the first outer wall and the second outer wall extending in parallel and being arranged in a first direction perpendicular to both the first outer wall and the second outer wall,
the third outer wall and the fourth outer wall extending in parallel and being arranged in a second direction perpendicular to both the third outer wall and the fourth outer wall,
the fifth outer wall and the sixth outer wall extending in parallel and being arranged in a third direction perpendicular to both the fifth outer wall and the sixth outer wall, and
the first direction, the second direction and the third direction are perpendicular to each other;

a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a storage being provided to the second surface,
wherein the third wall is formed with a first recess recessed in a fourth direction which is a one-way direction of the second direction directed from the third wall toward the fourth wall, the first recess having a bottom wall intersecting with the second direction,
wherein the bottom wall is formed with one of a second recess recessed in the fourth direction and a hole penetrating through the bottom wall in the fourth direction,
wherein the substrate is arranged in the first recess with the first surface facing a direction opposite to the fourth direction and with an adhesive layer being sandwiched between the bottom wall and the second surface,
wherein one of the storage and a molded part protecting the storage is arranged in the one of the second recess and the hole,
wherein the first recess is formed with an opening part at a particular position in the second direction, at least a part of the adhesive layer being accessible along the first direction through the opening part, and
wherein the cassette case is provided with a blocking member overlapping the one of the storage and the molded part in the first direction at the particular position.

2. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the blocking member overlaps the one of the storage and the molded part entirely in the first direction.

3. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the blocking member overlaps, in the first direction, an end part of the one of the storage and the molded part in the fourth direction.

4. The tape cassette according to claim 3 ,
wherein the cassette case has a first case and a second case arranged in the first direction,
wherein the first case includes at least the first outer wall,
wherein the second case includes at least the second outer wall, and
wherein the blocking member is formed integrally with one of the first case and the second case.

5. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
further comprising a discharging port allowing the tape to be discharged,
wherein the discharging port is provided to the fourth outer wall,
wherein the first recess is formed to the third outer wall, and
wherein at least a part of the discharging port and at least a part of the first recess overlap each other in the second direction.

6. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the adhesive layer is provided to a portion of the substrate other than an end portion of the substrate defining the opening part.

7. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the adhesive layer is formed by a both-side adhesive tape having a base material and adhesive layers formed on both sides of the base material.

8. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the bottom wall includes, in the third direction, a first bottom wall and a second bottom wall with the one of the second recess and the hole arranged therebetween, and
wherein the substrate is arranged in the first recess with the adhesive layer being located between each of the first bottom wall and the second bottom wall, and the second surface.

9. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the bottom wall extends in parallel with the second surface.

10. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein an entirety of the substrate is arranged within an area surrounded by end part of the third outer wall when viewed in the second direction.

11. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein a first distance between the fifth outer wall and the sixth outer wall is larger than a second distance between the first outer wall and the second outer wall, and
wherein a third distance between the third outer wall and the fourth outer wall is larger than the first distance.

12. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
further comprising a supporting part provided between the first outer wall and the second outer wall, the supporting part extending in the first direction, the supporting part supporting a tape roll configured by winding the tape.

13. The tape cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein a conductive electrode electrically connected to the storage is provided to the first surface.

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Ota Yoshihiro
• Nishihara Keisuke

Classifications

• B41J35/36

  Alarms, indicators, or feed disabling devices responsive to ink ribbon breakage or exhaustion · CPC title

• B41J32/00 Primary

  Ink-ribbon cartridges · CPC title

• B41J15/044 Primary

  Cassettes or cartridges containing continuous copy material, tape, for setting into printing devices · CPC title

• B41J2/32

  using thermal heads · CPC title

• B41J17/36

  Alarms, indicators, or feed-disabling devices responsible to material breakage or exhaustion · CPC title