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The face of a massive battery recall, PC makers are how to deal with? Recall whether the mechanism laptop battery should be necessary? The industry should draw what lessons?

October 16, Beijing Normal University women's dormitory. A laptop suddenly caught fire, triggering dormitory fire ... ...

September 17, the Los Angeles airport terminal. A passenger carrying Thinkpad T43 laptop suddenly caught on fire ... ...

August 24, the U.S. state of a people prospecting SARS. A Sony laptop suddenly caught on fire ... ...

Laptop battery Fujitsu FPCBP68 Battery explosions occurred one after another, making once again become a focus of public notebook. Up to now, according to incomplete statistics, from August onwards in the first place Dell laptop battery recall incident, the company has been involved in the incident, including Apple, Lenovo, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Sharp Corporation, involving a total of 800 batteries I 10000.

In fact, for any industry and any business, the quality is always difficult to be completely avoided. However, IT industry, had never encountered such a large scale involving the personal safety of product quality problems.

Where is the root of the problem the battery? The face of large-scale recall, PC makers are how to deal with? Whether the enterprise has a perfect recall mechanism and user compensation mechanisms? The face of similar incidents, the industry should draw what lessons?

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Although the arrival by the end of October, but the notebook makers and notebook battery Fujitsu FPCBP63 Battery manufacturers, this is really quiet year. As a result of a massive laptop battery recall incident, in 2006 is likely to be the industry's known as a "battery recall Year" title.

From the beginning in August, Dell, Apple and other notebook computer manufacturers have already started after a large-scale recall of laptop batteries, Lenovo, Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, etc. world's leading notebook PC manufacturers have in the October 1 after having recalled some of its notebook computer batteries. Most of the recalled batteries were the problem comes from lithium-ion battery, the inventor, is currently the world's largest supplier of notebook computer batteries Fujitsu FPCBP95 Battery Sony.

October 17, Sony (China), published on its website, the company will recall in Japan and China 90000 battery, this part of the battery is installed in the Sony VAIO brand laptop computer 12, in which 60000 battery put in the Japanese market, the 30000 in the Chinese market. Sony spokesman Takashi Uehara said the recall will ultimately be expanded to other markets. The spokesman said that Sony will recall these batteries due process.

In fact, according to Japanese media reports, as early as last November, Dell once told Sony, said the company produces the configuration of the Sony laptop battery IBM ThinkPad T40 Battery fire incident took place. Nevertheless, since Sony has not received other PC makers a large-scale incident report, and therefore a target for the Dell computer investigations, did not conduct further in-depth investigation on the battery.

So there were several fires, the Sony only began in-depth investigation. Because of the battery problems, Sony (China) Public Relations Minister Li Xi, explained to reporters: "In extremely rare cases, the associated battery cell in the microscopic metal IBM ThinkPad T41 Battery particles have come into contact with other parts of the battery cell, resulting in short-circuit possible. Under normal circumstances, in this case occurs, the battery pack will power off. However, in some very rare conditions, such internal short circuit may lead to cell overheating and potential fire risks.”
Li Xi said that so far, Sony believes that this technical analysis is correct.

Relative to the notebook computers that have taken place on fire incidents, more importantly, loading the problem with other laptop batteries IBM ThinkPad T42 Battery computer users will be what kind of impact?