Toshiba spokesman show company may recall excessive heating in the course of using one small quantities of and burn notebook computer battery of user in Thursday.
The German spokesman Manuel Linnig of Toshiba says, probably 5100 lithium cells will be recalled, those batteries with potential safety hazard are produced by Sony Company, involves 10 notebook computer products of Toshiba. Have some the intersection of style and the same kinds of style actually among them, precede by different commodity name in different regional market.
The notebook computer recalled the incident and happened in September of 2006, but recalled more than 8 million and charge lithium cell altogether last time, those batteries are produced by Sony Company.
The battery recalled the incident to influence the notebook computer products of several computers manufacturer last time, including company of computer system of Apple, Lenovo Group, Fujitsu, Gateway Company, Sony electronics corporation and Toshiba. Recently in May, because user change battery, cause the intersection of notebook computer and on fire emergence of accident together in time. In worst cases, the problem battery planned to recall this time may burn users and damage the computer.
This batch of batteries are in September of 2005 production, were mounted onto in the notebook computer from January of 2006 to April. In that five models are sold in the Japanese market, other five fund is sold by other markets outside of Japan. Linnig says, Toshiba plans a tool application software put on its website, users can check whether one’s own notebook computer has a potential safety hazard with this software, can notify consumers if existing. Does not plan as to those the users that download the tool software, they can be according to a file which Toshiba put up websites, check whether their notebook computer battery has a hidden danger by sequence number of the products.
Users can fill in a registration form on Toshiba website after finding that one’s own notebook computer battery has hidden dangers, then Toshiba will send a postpaid envelope for those users, so that users give the battery of the existing problem to return to Toshiba, then Toshiba sends to users another new battery.
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