by Playfuls Staff |
1st March 2007
Lenovo, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission, today announced the voluntary recall of approximately 205,000
extended-life, 9-cell battery packs. In the interests of public [more] safety,
Lenovo will offer customers free-of-charge replacements for all recalled
battery packs.
The battery manufacturer is the Japanese company Sanyo
Electric Co. Ltd. Lenovo has received four reports of batteries overheating
and damaging the notebook. This caused damage to the notebook computers, minor
property damage and, in one case, minor eye irritation to
one consumer. If the battery in the laptop is struck
forcefully on the corner, such as from a direct fall to the ground, the battery
pack can overheat and pose a fire hazard to users. This is not an internal
battery cell defect.
Lenovo sold these extended-life batteries with new ThinkPad
notebook PCs or as optional or replacement batteries for the following ThinkPad
notebook models: R Series (R60 and R60e), T Series (T60 and T60p) and Z Series
(Z60m, Z61e, Z61m, and Z61p). The recalled 9-cell batteries have the following
part number, which can be found on the
battery label: FRU P/N 92P1131.
Consumers should stop using the recalled batteries and contact
Lenovo for additional information and to receive a free replacement battery.
Consumers should use only ThinkPad batteries obtained from either Lenovo or an authorized reseller.
In August 2006, Dell Inc., the world's largest
personal-computer maker based on shipments, recalled 4.1 million lithium-ion
notebook batteries- the biggest U.S.
recall of a consumer-electronics device. One week later after Dell, Apple
Computer Inc. recalled 1.8 million notebook batteries. The cells inside the
batteries sold by both Dell and Apple were made by a unit of Sony.
