Patent ID: 7871068

Claim:
A medium conveying apparatus, comprising: a record medium enclosing section to enclose record medium; a paper feeding section to feed out the record medium enclosed in the record medium enclosing section; a first conveying section that is furnished at a downstream side of the paper feeding section and is used for conveying the record medium, the first conveying section including a pair of first conveying rollers; a second conveying section that is furnished at a downstream side of the first conveying section, the second conveying section including a pair of second conveying rollers; a third conveying section that is furnished between the paper feeding section and the first conveying section, the third conveying section including a pair of third conveying rollers; and a conveying controlling unit that controls the paper feeding section, the first conveying section, the second conveying section and the third conveying section, wherein the conveying controlling unit is configured to stop the operation of the paper feeding section by stopping the transmission of a driving force that drives the operation of the paper feeding section, when the record medium fed from the paper feeding section reaches the third pair of conveying rollers, to then convey the record medium by the third and first pairs of conveying rollers until the record medium reaches the second pair of conveying rollers, to then stop the operation of the third pair of conveying rollers by stopping the transmission of a driving force that drives the operation of the third pair of conveying rollers, after a front edge of the record medium reaches the second pair of conveying rollers, and to then convey the record medium by the first and second pairs of conveying rollers.