Sony, Toshiba laptop batteries renewed crisis in the United Kingdom fire

Guigudongli from the foreign media was informed by: a Toshiba laptop Acer LCBTP03003 Battery caught fire last month in the UK, this used Sony laptop battery recall in the company but not the replacement of the column .

It is understood that this is already the third cause of the fire is alleged to Taiwan issue with Sony batteries on Toshiba notebooks. Last year, Sony announced the recall of overheating and fire risks exist notebook lithium batteries, the global total of more than 1000 million batteries affected, including Dell, Lenovo, Apple and Acer top PC makers, including both affected in varying Acer TravelMate 4500 Battery degrees.

Affected by the fire incident, Toshiba will take steps to find all the batteries may have problems notebook users. Toshiba spokeswoman Yuko Sugahara said that day, May 25 this year, a Toshiba notebook computer users to office on fire and burned a table, but caused no casualties, Toshiba is currently working with the Sony laptop recall cost of consultations on the , but the spokesman refused to disclose details. Toshiba also said that in December last year and this year in April, Brazil and Acer Aspire 1410 Battery Japan, respectively, the incident took place in notebook computers caught fire. Previously, Sony said the problem batteries into the fire was due to metal particles caused by short circuit caused by the internal battery.

Currently, Toshiba has announced on its Web site problems battery products catalog, concurrent e-mail to users who may have these products. At the same time, the company Acer Aspire 1680 Battery will contact by e-mail to other users in the form of a list of the products in question in order to carry out repairs and maintenance. Toshiba spokesman said, and we are doing our best efforts to us about the repair and maintenance as much as possible to pass messages to each user.

It is understood that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has also recorded a number of reports of lithium-ion batteries overheated and caught fire. Large-scale Sony battery recall incident makes very "embarrassed" because at that time Sony had just turn around and to some extent, enhanced corporate image. Sony said the company Acer TravelMate 2300 Battery has improved through the design and manufacture of new batteries to prevent overheating and fire