ATBECHDEDKESFRGBGRITLILUNLSEMCPTIESILTLVFIROMKCYALRDIM360 - Ver 2.9 (30 Jun 1998) 1620000/00917959EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATIONA320000412EP98121984.319981119EnEnEn3197409719971120JP20000412200015199905261999217 7B 41J 3/407 AdeKassette für AufzeichnungsträgerenRecording medium cassettefrCassette pour support d'enregistrement1BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA00431487WT 13-12990.8KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, BROTHER15-1 Naeshiro-cho, Mizuho-kuNagoya-shi, Aichi-ken 467-8561JPYamaguchi, Koshiro c/o BROTHER KOGYO K. K.15-1, Naeshiro-cho, Mizuko-kuNagoya-shi, Aichi 467-8561JPPrüfer, Lutz H., Dipl.-Phys.et al00038296PRÜFER & PARTNER GbR, Patentanwälte, Harthauser Strasse 25d81545 MünchenDEATBECHCYDEDKESFIFRGBGRIEITLILUMCNLPTSEALLTLVMKROSI20000412200015

A tape cassette 8 is removably mounted in a tape printing apparatus. In the tape printing apparatus, a carriage CA mounts a thermal head HD on which heating elements are arranged in a line corresponding to the width in a main scanning direction of a tape TP. The carriage CA can be moved in a sub-scanning direction perpendicular to the direction of arrangement of the heating elements within an open part 8e of the tape cassette 8.