Abstract: A tape printing apparatus includes an operation surface and a plurality of operation keys protruding from the operation surface. The operation keys include first keys and second keys that protrude less than the first keys from the operation surface, and the second keys include at least one of a power key and a print key.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a delivering-side gear train that transmits motive power to a delivering-side drive shaft; an winding-side gear train that transmits motive power to an winding-side drive shaft; a second clutch mechanism that connects the drive motor and the delivering-side gear train to each other in accordance with reverse rotation of the drive motor and disconnects the drive motor and the delivering-side gear train from each other in accordance with forward rotation of the drive motor; and a first clutch mechanism that is provided upstream of the second clutch mechanism, connects the drive motor and the winding-side gear train to each other in accordance with the forward rotation of the drive motor, and disconnects the drive motor and the winding-side gear train from each other in accordance with the reverse rotation of the drive motor.

Abstract: A tape cartridge mounted to a tape printer having a printing head, includes a cartridge case, a platen roller that is housed in the cartridge case and fees an ink ribbon and a printing tape pressed between the platen roller and the printing head, a tape delivery port that is provided in the cartridge case and feeds the printing tape, which is fed by the platen roller and separated from the ink ribbon, to outside of the cartridge case, and a delivery guide that has a first guide section at a side of the printing head and a second guide section at a side of the platen roller, which extend from edges of the tape delivery port to inside of the cartridge case while spreading apart from each other, and guides a distal end of the printing tape into the tape delivery port.

Abstract: A tape cartridge mounted to a tape printer includes a ribbon feeding core on which an ink ribbon is wound so as to be capable of being fed and a ribbon winding core that winds the ink ribbon fed from the ribbon feeding core. In the tape cartridge, the ribbon feeding core includes a core body that winds the ink ribbon and a shaft engaging part formed at an end portion of the core body and engaged with a feeding-side driving shaft of the tape printer. The shaft engaging part protrudes in an axial direction of the core body from an end surface of the core body and is formed in a crown shape in which a plurality of convex portions and a plurality of concave portions are alternately arranged side by side in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: Provided is a tape cartridge which suppresses that a wrinkle occurs in a printing tape, and stabilizes a feeding of an ink ribbon. The tape cartridge includes a retracting prevention part (47) which is cantilevered on a tape feeding upstream side from a platen roller in a cartridge case so as to be elastically bent by receiving a tension of a fed label tape, and holds the label tape together with the platen roller moved to the tape feeding upstream side in association with a retracting of the label tape into the cartridge case. The retracting prevention part (47) includes a tape holding part (55) which holds the label tape together with the platen roller, and an upstream base end (56) which is provided in a base end of the tape holding part (55) on the tape feeding upstream side of the tape holding part (55) and in a position of being overlapped with a second ribbon guide part (52) when viewed from a bending direction (B).

Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and is able to be operated by being handheld including a handling portion that is a part to be handheld, a main mechanism portion in which a printing mechanism portion which is connected to a tip end side of the handling portion is built, and a handholding portion that is connected to a base end side of the handling portion and is used for being grabbed at the time of carrying, and the tape printing device is formed in a vertical long shape of which a ratio between the entire width of an outer shell and the entire length of the outer shell is approximately 1:2.

Abstract: A tape printing device that is able to be operated by being handheld includes a printing device main body that includes operating portions and a display portion on a front surface, and a pair of magnets that is detachably mounted on a rear surface of the printing device main body and is used for being adsorbed to an object to be installed.

Abstract: A tape cartridge which is mounted in a tape printing apparatus provided with a detection part, includes a tape-shaped member which has a detection protrusion of which a lateral side partially protrudes in a tape width direction and a cartridge case in which a tape roll formed by winding the tape-shaped member into a roll shape is contained. In the tape cartridge, an exposed area is provided outside the cartridge case, the exposed area being where the detection protrusion provided in the tape-shaped member delivered from the tape roll and fed in a length direction of the tape-shaped member is exposed, the cartridge case has a cover which covers the tape-shaped member delivered from the tape roll in a tape feeding upstream side from the exposed area, and the cover includes a first cover, a second cover and a position regulating part.

Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a handling portion including an operating portion on a front surface and is a part to be handheld, and a main mechanism portion connected to a tip end side of the handling portion, in which the printing mechanism portion is built, in which the handling portion is formed in a constricted shape of which an intermediate portion of a longitudinal direction is constricted.

Abstract: A tape printing device that is vertically long and can be operated by being handheld includes a main key operating portion configured with a plurality of groups of keys 215, 217, and 219 on a front surface, in which, among the plurality of groups of keys 215, 217, and 219, a group of keys 215 having a high frequency of operations is disposed at a position near a gravity center portion in a longitudinal direction, and the groups of keys 217 and 219 having a low frequency of operations are disposed at a position distant from the gravity center portion in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: An apparatus includes: a delivering-side gear train that transmits motive power to a delivering-side drive shaft; an winding-side gear train that transmits motive power to an winding-side drive shaft; a second clutch mechanism that connects the drive motor and the delivering-side gear train to each other in accordance with reverse rotation of the drive motor and disconnects the drive motor and the delivering-side gear train from each other in accordance with forward rotation of the drive motor; and a first clutch mechanism that is provided upstream of the second clutch mechanism, connects the drive motor and the winding-side gear train to each other in accordance with the forward rotation of the drive motor, and disconnects the drive motor and the winding-side gear train from each other in accordance with the reverse rotation of the drive motor.

Abstract: A tape cartridge, to be installed in a tape printing apparatus having a cartridge installation portion, includes a tape-shaped member having a plurality of label portions provided along a length direction of the tape-shaped member and a plurality of detection target portions provided along the length direction of the tape-shaped member so as to correspond to the plurality of label portions on one side thereof in a tape width direction projecting in the tape width direction. The tape cartridge further includes a cartridge case in which the tape-shaped member is accommodated so as to be capable of being paid out. The cartridge case has a slit-shaped delivery port. A detection target passage of the tape delivery port, through which the respective detection target portions pass, has a chamfering portion at a corner on an inner surface side of the cartridge case of an edge thereof.

Abstract: A sheet cartridge includes a label sheet and a cartridge case. The label sheet has plural label portions temporarily attached at a predetermined label pitch to a temporary label attachment area that is one end in a direction of width of a long backing sheet, and plural label position detection target portions provided at a detection target end portion that is an other end in a direction of width of the backing sheet and configured to indicate a print start position and a cutting position for the each label portion. The cartridge case accommodates the label sheet that is wound, in such a way that the label sheet can be reeled off, and in which cartridge case a detection opening for protruding each label position detection target portion for detection is formed.

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.

Abstract: A tape printing apparatus includes an operation surface and a plurality of operation keys protruding from the operation surface. The operation keys include first keys and second keys that protrude less than the first keys from the operation surface, and the second keys include at least one of a power key and a print key.

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.

Abstract: A tape cartridge to be installed in a printing apparatus. The tape cartridge includes a tape-shaped member, a platen roller that pays out the tape-shaped member by rotation, and a cartridge case in which the tape-shaped member and the platen roller are accommodated. The tape-shaped member includes a backing paper, a plurality of label portions releasably affixed to a backing surface serving as one surface of the backing paper, a non-label portion releasably affixed to the backing surface of at least one of both lateral sides in a width direction of the tape shaped member, and a backing-surface exposed portion provided on the peripheries of the label portions and causing the backing surface to be exposed.

Abstract: Provided is a tape cartridge capable of reducing false detection by a detection portion. A tape cartridge 100 installed in a tape printing apparatus includes: a label tape 101 having a plurality of detection convex portions 109 partially projecting from an end thereof in a tape width direction; a cartridge case in which the label tape 101 is accommodated; a platen roller 103 accommodated in the cartridge case and paying out the label tape 101 by rotation; and an exposed area formed in the cartridge case and serving as an area in which the plurality of detection convex portions 109 is exposed one after another as the label tape 101 is paid out by the platen roller 103, wherein the label tape 101 is not exposed in the exposed area except for the detection convex portions.

Abstract: A sheet cartridge includes a label sheet and a cartridge case. The label sheet has plural label portions temporarily attached at a predetermined label pitch to a temporary label attachment area that is one end in a direction of width of a long backing sheet, and plural label position detection target portions provided at a detection target end portion that is an other end in a direction of width of the backing sheet and configured to indicate a print start position and a cutting position for the each label portion. The cartridge case accommodates the label sheet that is wound, in such a way that the label sheet can be reeled off, and in which cartridge case a detection opening for protruding each label position detection target portion for detection is formed.

Abstract: Provided is a tape cartridge or the like that prevents detection target portions from contacting a finger or the like when an exposed area is provided in a cartridge case to cause the detection target portions of a tape-shaped member to be exposed. A tape cartridge includes a label tape 101 having a plurality of label portions 105 and a plurality of detection target portions 109 and a cartridge case and is installed in a tape feeding apparatus that feeds the label tape 101 based on the passage detection of the detection target portions 109 to separate the label portions 105 at a cut spot 112 on the label tape 101 at a cut position P3 outside the cartridge case.