Lenovo investigates Sony battery-run laptop fire
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Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK), the world's  third-largest personal computer maker, said on Monday it is  looking into a fire incident on a Lenovo laptop PC equipped  with a Sony Corp. (6758.T) battery.
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(InfoWorld) - Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. (Panasonic) is recalling several thousand laptop computer battery packs because mechanical problems with the pack's latch could lead to overheating of the battery. The recall applies to around 6,000 battery packs that were shipped with its CF-W4G Let's Note W4 laptop computers in April and May of 2005, the company said Tuesday. The recall only applies to machines shipped in Japan. The problems arise if the owner sometimes drops the machine or sets it down on a table very roughly, said Akira Kadota, a spokesman for the company in Tokyo. On such occasions the small spring in the latch can penetrate the battery pack and cause a short circuit that leads to overheating, he said. Panasonic has documented two cases to-date of this happening with the battery packs under recall. "This is veryÂ different from the Sony case," he said referring to recent recalls by Dell and Apple ComputerÂ of almost 6 million battery packs containing Sony-made cells. Sony said the presence of metallic particles inside the battery meant there is a chance that the cells could overheat and catch fire under certain circumstances. The cells in the batteries under recall were not made by Sony or Panasonic, said Kadota. He wouldn't name the battery maker. Panasonic has posted details of the recall on the Internet in Japanese at:Â http://askpc.panasonic.co.jp/info/info_w4.html.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp. (6758.T)  on Thursday said it will recall certain lithium-ion notebook  computer batteries following complaints of overheating by some  computer makers.
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WASHINGTON -- Some 526,000 batteries used in ThinkPad notebook computers worldwide are being recalled in the latest problem with batteries made by Sony Corp., the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK) and  IBM  are recalling more than half a million notebook  computer batteries made by Sony Corp. (6758.T) after a computer  caught fire at the Los Angeles International Airport, Lenovo  and U.S. safety officials said on Thursday.
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Fujitsu is the latest laptop maker to issue a recall because of a defective battery. This one affected 287,000 laptops that use Sony batteries.
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Consumers are being asked to return 526,000 laptop batteries made by Sony Corp. because they could catch fire, the latest in a record-setting recall involving nearly 7 million computers.
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Toshiba Corp. said on Thursday it has  recalled more Sony Corp. laptop computer batteries due to fire  risk, rekindling concerns over the safety of Sony-made  batteries.
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Overheating risk Hitachi has asked for 16,000 Sony-made laptop batteries which may pose a fire risk to be returned for a free replacement, the Japanese computer company said today, the second notebook maker to launch such a recall this week.â¦
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Computer-maker Lenovo announces the recall of more than 500,000 laptop computer batteries made by Sony.
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(InfoWorld) - Hitachi Ltd. joins most of the leading notebook computer makers in recalling batteries from Sony Corp. that are known to overheat and potentially cause fires. The recall is one of the smaller ones, affecting 16,000 units only sold in Japan. The Hitachi Flora 210W and Flora Se210 laptops ship with the Sony batteries, Hitachi said. Hitachi doesn't use the batteries in any other products and hasn't received any complaints from users about problems with them. Hitachi's recall pales compared to Dell Inc.'s, which was the first and affected 4.1 million of the Sony batteries. Apple Computer Inc. recalled 1.8 million batteries and Toshiba Corp., Lenovo Group Ltd., IBM Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. have recalled hundreds of thousands each.Â Combined, the companies have recalled more than 7.9 million batteries. Hewlett-Packard Co. is one of the few remaining large computer makers not to issue a recall, claiming that an HP system configuration prevents overheating. Acer Inc. is considering issuing a recall but is still investigating the issue. Sony is hammering out a plan with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to launchÂ a global replacement programÂ for the batteries. Sony blames the problem, which affects some lithium ion batteries, on tiny metal particles that might come in contact with parts of the battery, possibly triggering a short circuit. Normally, the battery should power off when that happens, Sony said, but in some cases the short circuit could cause overheating and flames. Â
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Lenovo confirms that one of its laptops overheated and caught fire, but it doesn't yet know if Sony batteries were inside.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. 0992.HK and   IBM IBM.N are recalling more than half a million notebook   computer batteries made by Sony Corp. 6758.T after a computer   caught fire at the Los Angeles International Airport, Lenovo   and U.S. safety officials said on Thursday.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK) and  International Business Machines Corp.  are recalling  about 526,000 Sony Corp. (6758.T) batteries made for ThinkPad  notebook PCs after a computer caught fire at Los Angeles  International Airport, Lenovo and U.S. safety officials said on  Thursday.
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Lenovo Group Ltd. 0992.HK, the world's   third-largest personal computer maker, said on Monday it is   looking into a fire incident on a Lenovo laptop PC equipped   with a Sony Corp. 6758.T battery.
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Brave or foolhardy? You decide... An HP notebook was left damaged but not destroyed last week when it became the latest laptop to suffer a battery meltdown - the hasty removal of the power cell prevented a notebook fire like the one that took out a Lenovo ThinkPad two weeks ago. This time the incendiary incident was captured on video.â¦
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After a journalist's LG Electronics Inc. laptop reportedly exploded in flames, the company said Wednesday it was investigating.