Patent ID: 8342506

Claim:
A sheet conveyance apparatus comprising: a joining portion configured by joining a first sheet conveyance path to a second sheet conveyance path; a first sheet conveyance unit provided on the upstream side of the joining portion and configured to convey a sheet in the first sheet conveyance path; a second sheet conveyance unit provided on the downstream side of the joining portion and configured to convey a sheet conveyed from the first sheet conveyance path and a sheet conveyed in the second sheet conveyance path; a rotatable elastic roller arranged along a conveyance guide surface forming the second sheet conveyance path and crossing an extension line of the first sheet conveyance path, and at a position in which a leading edge of a sheet conveyed from the first sheet conveyance path abuts, wherein a surface portion of the elastic roller includes an elastic material having lower hardness than hardness of a surface portion of the second sheet conveyance unit.