Patent ID: 6937546

Claim:
An optical disk device comprising: a thread on which a pick-up head is placed, said pick-up head serving to read data recorded on an optical disk by irradiating a track formed on a recording face of said optical disk with an optical beam focused by a lens and detecting the reflected light, wherein said pick-up head includes a holder that holds the lens, the holder being rotatable with respect to the thread; a lens moving unit adapted to rotate the holder of said pick-up head relative to said thread; a thread moving unit adapted to move said thread as well as said pick-up head in the radial direction of the optical disk; and a movement controller adapted to control said thread moving unit to start movement of said thread while controlling said lens moving unit to perform track-on control so that the lens of said pick-up head is located on a prescribed track, and thereafter when it is detected that said thread has moved a prescribed amount on the basis of a tracking servo signal potential starting the rotation of said holder by said lens moving unit, wherein said movement controller also detects whether or not said lens and said prescribed track are displaced from each other because the tracking servo signal has exceeded a prescribed potential, and when the prescribed potential is exceeded, controlling said thread moving unit by terminating an applied drive kick signal, and controlling said lens moving unit by terminating the tracking servo signal and applying the drive kick signal to said lens moving unit.