Patent ID: 7677551

Claim:
A document conveying apparatus that separates and conveys one document sheet after another from a stack of document sheets placed on a document stacking tray to permit image data to be read from a document surface, the document conveying apparatus comprising: a fan arranged at such an orientation as to pass air from an upstream side to a downstream side with respect to a document conveying direction to cool an inside of the document conveying apparatus, the air flowing along a document conveying passage on an air intake side and/or an air exhaust side of the fan, the air exhaust side of the fan pointing to a downstream-side end face of the stack of document sheets placed on the document stacking tray; and an exhaust louver provided on a wall portion located in a downstream-side vicinity of the downstream-side end face of the stack of document sheets, the exhaust louver permitting the air discharged from the fan to be directed to the downstream-side end face of the stack of document sheets placed on the document stacking tray.