Sanyo to share battery recall cost with Lenovo
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TOKYO/SHANGHAI  - Troubled Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co.  said on Friday it would shoulder with China's Lenovo Group  the cost of recalling 205,000 Sanyo-made laptop battery packs that can overheat.
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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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Japanese electronics maker Hitachi said Friday that it would recall 16,000 Sony-produced laptop batteries, becoming the seventh company do so over the past month. The batteries are found in laptops sold to businesses mainly in Japan.
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In statements made to the AP, Reuters, and other services this morning, spokespersons for Sanyo said they would help bear the cost of Lenovo's recall of an estimated 205,000 lithium-ion notebook computer batteries sold worldwide, whose risk of overheating and explosion was determined yesterday to be too tenable.
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Japan's Hitachi Corp. said Friday that it plans to recall about 16,000 laptop battery packs made by Sony Corp., a company spokesman said, the latest in a massive global recall of the batteries that can overheat and catch fire.
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Hitachi Ltd.  said on Friday it  will recall 16,000 batteries made by Sony Corp.  for  laptop computers, joining a growing list of PC makers recalling  Sony batteries.
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Japan's Hitachi Ltd. said on Friday it  would recall 16,000 laptop batteries made by Sony Corp., taking  part in Sony's worldwide battery exchange program.
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Recall makes Lenovo the fourth major PC manufacturer to haul notebooks back due to battery issues.
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Sanyo, which manufactured faulty batteries, may shre the cost of recalling those batteries with Lenovo.
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Lenovo, the Chinese computer firm which last year bought IBM, recalls about 205,000 batteries made by Sanyo.
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Nokia said Friday that it had reached an agreement with Matsushita Battery to cover costs related to its August 14 recall of BL-5C batteries manufactured by the company for about four dozen Nokia phone models.
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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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No. 3 computer maker Lenovo Inc. has recalled 208,000 laptop computer batteries that could overheat in the U.S. company's second recall in six months.
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Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million laptop computer batteries came as embarrassing news to Sony, which supplied the problem batteries, but proved to be good news for rival Japanese electronics companies Sanyo and Matsushita, pushing the struggling company's shares higher Wednesday.
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Osaka-based electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said Wednesday it will spend 30 billion yen ($245 million) to boost output of lithium-ion batteries for laptop computers.
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New battery a welcome addition to the market after recall costs laptop manufacturers millions.
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Dell Inc.'s recall of 4.1 million  notebook computer batteries could cost Sony Corp. anywhere from  10 billion yen to 50 billion yen ($85-$430 million), hurting  the Japanese electronics maker's short-term earnings and its  brand image, analysts said.