Patent ID: 8424872

Claim:
A sheet conveying apparatus in which a sheet is abutted on a stopped registration roller to correct skew feeding of the sheet, the sheet being conveyed by a conveying roller disposed upstream in a sheet conveying direction of the registration roller, and the registration roller and the conveying roller are driven after the skew feeding is corrected, the sheet conveying apparatus comprising: a sheet detecting portion that is disposed between the registration roller and the conveying roller to detect the sheet conveyed by the conveying roller; a first stepping motor that drives the registration roller; a second stepping motor that drives the conveying roller; and a control unit that controls the second stepping motor so that the conveying roller stops the sheet at a position before the registration roller or at an abutted position on the registration roller based on the detecting of the sheet detecting portion, and the conveying roller starts to convey the sheet at a sheet conveying speed that is equal to or lower than a sheet conveying speed by a self-start frequency of the first stepping motor, to form a loop of a predetermined amount in the sheet, and the control unit controls the first and second stepping motors so that a rotation of the registration roller and a rotation of the conveying roller are started up with predetermined identical accelerations at the same time after the loop of the predetermined amount is formed.