Patent ID: 7766326

Claim:
A sheet conveyance apparatus, comprising: a sheet conveyance unit which conveys a sheet; a moving unit which moves said sheet conveyance unit in a direction intersecting with a sheet conveyance direction; a controller which controls a movement of said sheet conveyance unit in the direction intersecting with the sheet conveyance direction; and a pair of conveyance rotary members which is arranged on a downstream side of said sheet conveyance unit in the sheet conveyance direction, said pair of conveyance rotary members being contactable with and being separable from each other, wherein when a moving amount of said sheet conveyance unit in the direction intersecting with the sheet conveyance direction is larger than a predetermined moving amount, said controller controls the movement of said sheet conveyance unit in the direction intersecting with the sheet conveyance direction so that said sheet conveyance unit moves with a moving speed greater than a moving speed for the predetermined moving amount, and wherein when a length of the conveyed sheet in the sheet conveyance direction is longer than a predetermined length, said pair of conveyance rotary members are separated from each other.