Patent ID: 7806403

Claim:
A sheet conveying apparatus, comprising: a sheet conveying part that conveys sheets; a detection part that outputs a signal according to a position of each sheet conveyed by the sheet conveying part in a lateral direction orthogonal to a conveying direction; a lateral shift part that shifts the conveyed sheet in the lateral direction; and a control part that controls an operation of the lateral shift part based on an output of the detection part, wherein after a lateral shift operation is ended by the lateral shift part, a detection is performed again by the detection part, and the control part controls the operation of the lateral shift part based on a detection result thereof, the control part determines whether or not a second operation of the lateral shift part is possible, and the control part determines that the second operation of the lateral shift part is impossible when an amount of the first shift of the lateral shift part based on the signal output from the detection part is larger than a predetermined amount, and the control part determines that the second operation of the lateral shift part is possible when an amount of the first shift of the lateral shift part based on the signal output from the detection part is equal to or smaller than the predetermined amount.