Lenovo confirmed that its ThinkPad T43 used Sony’s battery when caught fire at Los Angeles International Airport recently. It’s the first time Lenovo has observed an incident involving one of its laptops and the faulty Sony batteries, the company’s representative said. Lenovo and Sony are continuing to test the heavily damaged ThinkPad T43 in an attempt to learn exactly what caused the problem, according to the representative.
In August, Lenovo said that tests had confirmed that it’s laptop PC technology was not prone to the same types of problems, which caused massive Dell’s and Apple’s battery recalls after several fire incidents with their laptops powered by Sony’s lithium-ion batteries.
Toshiba announced that it is recalling 340,000 battery packs for Satellite and Dyna book laptops made between March and May. The 100,000 affected battery units are in the United States. Sony made those batteries but the problem doesn’t cause them to explode. Instead the batteries just stop charging or discharge too fast, the Wall Street Journal cited the AP report.There is no recall notification on the Toshiba web site yet, but there is information that Toshiba laptops are not affected by Sony overheating battery issue, which caused the recent massive Dell and Apple notebook battery recalls.
After Australian’s Qantas and Korean Air, Virgin Atlantic has made restrictions on laptop battery in-flight use.
Virgin Atlantic’s policy forbids bringing on board any Apple and Dell notebook batteries, unless they are removed from the computer and individually wrapped. Virgin Atlantic doesn’t prevent such laptop owners from operating their notebooks, but it limits them to seat-side power supplies. If you’re not sitting close enough to a seat-side power supply or if you’re not sitting in a premium-class cabin, where the seats are fitted with In Seat Power Supplies, you won’t be able to use your PC during the flight.
Consumer Product Safety Commission officials said yesterday they are reviewing all Sony-made lithium-ion batteries in laptop computers for fire hazards after Dell announced the 4.1 million batteries recall. The Sony batteries are also used in notebooks from Hewlett-Packard, Apple and Lenovo.
“We are looking at the complete scope of the batteries made by Sony to ensure that no other consumers are in harm’s way. We recognize that the batteries manufactured by Sony are not unique to just the Dell notebook computers,” U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission spokesman Scott Wolfson said.
Apple has initiated a worldwide battery exchange program for certain batteries that were sold for use with 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops from February 2006 through May 2006.
“We recently discovered that some 15-inch MacBook Pro batteries supplied to Apple do not meet our high standards for battery performance. To give our users the best experience possible, we will replace these batteries for customers free of charge”, Apple published. In a statement about the HP batteries, the CPSC advised people concerned that if they had a faulty battery to immediately remove the recalled battery from their notebook computer and contact HP to determine if their battery is included in the recall and to request a free replacement battery.
"After removing the recalled battery from their notebook computer, consumers may use the AC adapter to power the computer until a replacement battery arrives. Consumers should only use batteries obtained from HP or an authorized reseller," it said.
It said it was aware of two incidents where batteries had combusted but no injuries had been incurred.
HP said users can see whether the battery is a danger and applies for free replacement by logging onto its site and typing in the code located at the top of the service label on the bottom of the notebook.
This isn't the first time tech has gone up in flames. Dell has had major problems with exploding laptops due to lithium-ion batteries in the past too. However it seems this burning question could soon be solved with scientists at Cambridge University claiming to have developed a simple, accurate way of monitoring what's going on inside one of these, which could go someway to preventing this.
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- Voltage: 11.1V
- Capacity: 4,400mAh
- Color: black
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- BenQ Joybook R55
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- Compal: EL81, GL30, GL31, HEL81, HGL30, and HGL31
- GreatWall: T50
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Product Name: Replace for Acer 19V 3.42A AC Adapter
Input: AC100-240V (worldwide use)
Output: DC19V 3.42A
Power: 65W
Outlet : 3-prong
Connector size : 5.5mm X 1.5mm
Warranty : 12 months
Status : new!
SKU : 93-01050-002
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