TAPE CARTRIDGE

• Main Author: SODEYAMA, Hideo
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 19.04.2017
• Subjects: CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

The invention provides a tape cartridge 11, comprising a platen 15, when the tape cartridge 11 is mounted on a tape printer 1, a print head 22 of the tape printer 1 contacting the platen 15 with a print tape T and an ink ribbon R arranged therebetween such that the print head 22 can be separated from the platen 15; a cartridge case 16 that houses the print tape T, the ink ribbon R, and the platen 15; and an insertion opening 17 formed in the cartridge case 16, the print head 22 being inserted into the insertion opening 17, wherein a contact portion 10 of the platen 15 that is brought into contact with the print head 22 protrudes relative to a head receiver 72 of the insertion opening 17 to which the print head 22 is exposed when the print head 22 contacts the platen 15, wherein the cartridge case 16 includes a seat-surface-side first case wall 44, wherein the head receiver 72 is defined by an edge of the first case wall 44 near the insertion opening 17, and has a first communication portion 73 that communicates with a first bearing hole 57 that is formed in the first case wall 44, and wherein the first communication portion 73 has a depressed shape, and the contact portion 10 of the platen 15 protrudes relative to the edge of the first case wall 44.