Cassette and cassette body

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11433689-B2
Application number	US-201916453549-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 26, 2019
Priority date	Sep 21, 2018
Publication date	Sep 6, 2022
Grant date	Sep 6, 2022

Abstract

A cassette includes: a housing; and a medium having a first portion contained in the housing and a second portion protruding to an outside of the housing. The second portion of the medium is a protruding portion having an indicator portion on which information is printed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A cassette, comprising:
a housing; and
a medium contained in the housing and including a substrate and a release paper sheet stuck to the substrate, at least a portion of the substrate being contained in the housing,
wherein the substrate includes an indicator portion on which information has already been printed, the information being information indicating at least one of (i) a width of the medium, (ii) an entire length of the medium and (iii) a cassette of type, and
wherein the indicator portion on which the information has been printed is located outside the housing in a state in which the indicator portion continuously extends from the medium which is located inside the housing.

2. The cassette according to claim 1 , further comprising a half-cut line provided on a boundary region between the indicator portion and a non-indicator portion adjacent to the indicator portion.

3. The cassette according to claim 1 , further comprising an adhesive portion provided between the substrate and the release paper sheet,
wherein the adhesive portion temporarily secures at protruding portion of the medium protruding to an outside of the housing to an outer surface of the housing.

4. The cassette according to claim 1 , wherein the indicator portion comprises: a first indicator portion on which the information is printed in a first manner; and a second indicator portion on which the information is printed in a second manner different from the first manner, and the first indicator portion and the second indicator portion are arranged in a direction in which the medium extends.

5. The cassette according to claim 4 , further comprising a half-cut line provided at a boundary region between the first indicator portion and the second indicator portion.

6. The cassette according to claim 4 ,
wherein the housing comprises:
a first outer surface comprises an output portion configured to discharge a protruding portion of the medium to the outside of the housing; and
a second outer surface adjacent to the first outer surface,

wherein the cassette further comprises a bendable portion provided at a boundary region between the first indicator portion and the second indicator portion, and
wherein a surface of the medium which is located on an opposite side of the medium from a surface thereof at which the indicator portion is provided comprises:
a portion located on an opposite side of the medium from the first indicator portion and opposed to the first outer surface; and
a portion located on an opposite side of the medium from the second indicator portion and opposed to the second outer surface.

7. The cassette according to claim 6 , wherein the first manner and the second manner are different from each other in direction as reference to the information.

8. The cassette according to claim 4 ,
wherein the information comprises at least a character, and
wherein the first manner and the second manner are different from each other in size of the character.

9. The cassette according to claim 2 , wherein the half-cut line is one of:
a first half-cut line in which an entire cut portion cut across the medium in a thickness direction of a protruding portion of the medium protruding to an outside of the housing is formed at a portion of the medium in a widthwise direction of the protruding portion; and
a second half-cut line in which a half-cut portion comprising a slit formed in a portion of the medium in the thickness direction of the protruding portion is formed in one of entirety and a portion of the medium in the widthwise direction of the protruding portion.

10. The cassette according to claim 1 , wherein the information comprises at least gray-level information indicating a design in which a print density gradually changes.

11. The cassette according to claim 1 , further comprising a storage configured to store at least a portion of the information.

12. The cassette according to claim 1 , wherein the medium comprises a third indicator portion different from the indicator portion and provided at a portion of the medium which is different from a protruding portion of the medium protruding to an outside of the housing.

13. The cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the housing contains a first roll that is a roll of a tape on which the information is to be printed, and
wherein the medium comprises at least the tape.

14. The cassette according to claim 13 ,
wherein the housing contains a second roll that is a roll of a film to be stuck to the tape on which the information is printed, and
wherein the medium comprises the tape and the film.

15. A cassette body, comprising:
a cassette comprising (i) a housing and (ii) a medium contained in the housing and including a substrate and a release paper sheet stuck to the substrate, at least a portion of the substrate being contained in the housing, wherein the substrate includes an indicator portion on which information has already been printed, the information being information indicating at least one of (i) a width of the medium, (ii) an entire length of the medium and (iii) a cassette of type; and
a bag configured to cover the cassette,
wherein a portion of the bag which is opposed to the indicator portion has transparency or comprises a through hole.

16. The cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the indicator portion on which the information has already been printed is located at a downstream side of a discharging portion of the housing from which the medium is discharged from the housing in a direction in which the medium is conveyed.

17. The cassette according to claim 1 ,
wherein the indicator portion on which the information has already been printed is located at a downstream end side of the medium that is nearer to a downstream end of the medium than an upstream end of the medium in a direction in which the medium is conveyed.

Assignees

• Brother Ind Ltd

Inventors

• Murayama Kentaro

Classifications

• B41J15/044 Primary

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

• B41J3/4075

  Tape printers; Label printers · CPC title

• B41J32/00

  Ink-ribbon cartridges · CPC title

• B41J31/05

  Ink ribbons having coatings other than impression-material coatings · CPC title

• B41J2/175 Primary

  Ink supply systems {; Circuit parts therefor} · CPC title