Patent ID: 7012877

Claim:
An information reproducing apparatus comprising: a clamping device capable of clamping and clamp-releasing a recording medium; a rotating device for rotating the recording medium clamped by said clamping device; a reading device disposed opposite to an information record surface of the recording medium for reading information recorded on the information record surface of the recording medium; a driving device capable of moving said reading device in a radial direction of the recording medium; and a linkage device for linking a clamping or clamp-releasing action by said clamping device with a movement of said reading device by said driving device, wherein said driving device moves said reading device as a first driving voltage is supplied to said driving device upon reading the information recorded on the information record surface, the first driving voltage including such a value that the action of said clamping device is not linked with the movement of said reading device by said linkage device.