Patent ID: 6970411

Claim:
An apparatus for at least reproducing information from an optical record disk, said apparatus comprising: a spindle motor for rotating said optical record disk; a movable member having said spindle motor secured thereto and being arranged to be displaceable around an imaginary straight line substantially parallel to an imaginary plane which is parallel to a record surface of said optical record disk, in a direction toward said optical record disk as well as in a direction away from said optical record disk, said optical record disk and said spindle motor being coupled with each other under a condition that said movable member has been moved into a predetermined position; a driving member moving rectilinearly in a straight direction substantially parallel to said imaginary plane and having an inclined portion which is inclined with respect to said imaginary plane, a part of said movable member being brought into contact with said inclined portion of said driving member at least when said movable member being moved toward said predetermined position; an optical head including at least an objective lens for projecting at least one light beam onto said optical record disk to at least read said information from said optical record disk under said condition that said movable member has been moved into said predetermined position; a position detector for detecting said condition that said movable member has been moved into said predetermined position; and a controller for initiating a rotation of said spindle motor after said position detector detects said condition that said movable member has been moved into said predetermined position.