Patent ID: 7810811

Claim:
A sheet conveying apparatus, comprising: a first sheet conveying rotary member; a second sheet conveying rotary member provided upstream in a sheet conveying direction of the first sheet conveying rotary member; a third sheet conveying rotary member provided upstream in the sheet conveying direction of the second sheet conveying rotary member; wherein the first sheet conveying rotary member, the second sheet conveying rotary member, and the third sheet conveying rotary member can convey the same sheet at the same time; a driving mechanism configured to drive the first sheet conveying rotary member, the second sheet conveying rotary member and the third sheet conveying rotary member so that a relationship between peripheral speeds V 1 , V 2 , and V 3 is V 3 >V 1 >V 2 , the V 1 is a peripheral speed of the first sheet conveying rotary member, the V 2 is a peripheral speed of the second sheet conveying rotary member, and the V 3 is a peripheral speed of the third sheet conveying rotary member; and wherein an actual velocity of a sheet at a portion where the sheet is ejected from the second sheet conveying rotary member is equal to or lower than the peripheral speed of the first sheet conveying rotary member.