Universal 15-year lithium battery replacement into the plight
Recall the number of the record industry’s most Nokia Tuesday announced that part of the Matsushita-made lithium-ion batteries overheating problems, the company will take the initiative to recall these products and for the user to replace the battery, it is learned, and the recall of events up to 46 million mobile phone department. It is not clear that the company would recall and replace the number of batteries, but the number of recalled Sony batteries are projected to more than four times higher than the incident has become the industry’s largest battery recall incident, together.
Since August last year, Dell announced that Sony held a large-scale production for notebook computer lithium-ion batteries, the battery industry has been plagued by such incidents. Almost all the major computer makers have announced and recall of Sony laptop batteries, while Sanyo Electric has recalled over mobile phone batteries and notebook batteries.
Battery recalls continue to occur on the one hand reflects the business-to-consumers more prudent and responsible attitude on the other hand also shows that the battery there are still many problems in production. Rechargeable lithium batteries in the past 15 years has been a laptop computer and cell phone industry, one important factor in the rapid development of lithium batteries is relatively cheap, light weight, environmental performance is good, much better than nickel-chromium batteries.
On the other hand, lithium battery current generated by larger, more complex manufacturing processes, heat and even easier to overheat, short circuit occurs when the consequences are more serious. Last year, some Sony laptop battery fire incidents have occurred. The recall Nokia Panasonic lithium battery allegedly occurred because the battery charger overheating.
It hard to recall the aftermath of the mobile phone industry and the notebook computer industry’s rapid development has exceeded the pace of development of battery technology, product features but also increasingly improved battery performance higher and higher requirements.
Lithium battery incidents occur frequently prompted some manufacturers to take a more cautious attitude. Toyota hybrid vehicle delay in the use of lithium battery plan. Nevertheless, industry experts still believe that despite the limitations of lithium batteries, but in the foreseeable future, it is still the most practical battery technology.
Sony announced this week that the company will spend 97.6 million U.S. dollars in Singapore to build a cell phone battery manufacturing plant in order to consolidate its market share. The plant will use more advanced lithium-ion polymer technology, the factory is expected to be operational by August next year, the initial monthly production capacity will reach 1 million by 2010 will reach eight million. Toshiba’s ongoing efforts to develop alternative energy technologies, such as fuel cells, this battery does not use chemicals, but the battery for commercial still have a long way to go.
Panasonic is currently the world’s four largest manufacturers of lithium batteries, the company said its the battery problem is generated in the manufacturing process. When used with an insulating layer to prevent short circuit damage occurs when the overheating arises. Nokia said that so far, Panasonic lithium battery overheating problem caused by only 100 cases were reported, but no serious injuries. However, Nokia will continue to take preventive measures to replace all the production date of December 2005 and November 2006 between the same origin as the Osaka battery.
Panasonic is expected to bear most of the costs to replace the battery is estimated to cost up to 170 million U.S. dollars. Affected by this news, yesterday in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Matsushita shares fell nearly 5 percent, to close at ¥ 2015.
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