Patent ID: 8807559

Claim:
A sheet conveying apparatus, comprising: a conveying roller pair including a first conveying roller and a second conveying roller, which conveys a sheet by a nip portion formed by the first conveying roller and the second conveying roller; and a shutter portion which is rotated around a rotation center of a rotary shaft of the first conveying roller, the shutter portion being rotated and guiding a leading edge of the sheet to the nip portion after the leading edge of the sheet abuts against the shutter portion , the shutter portion including: a regulating surface configured to regulate a movement of the sheet toward the rotation center of the first conveying roller; an abutment surface against which the leading edge of the sheet is abutted; and a bent corner portion in which the abutment surface and the regulating surface intersect with each other, a distance from the rotation center of the first conveying roller to the bent corner portion being a radius of the first conveying roller, the bent corner portion guiding the leading edge of the sheet to the nip portion as the shutter portion is rotated in a state that the leading edge of the sheet abuts against the bent corner portion.