For some time now, it looks like something's happening with Sony-made batteries as they seem to fail in ever increasing numbers, forcing the companies that sold them to issue recall after recall. The Sony laptop batteries are now being used on a very large scale by the most important laptop manufacturers and vendors like Toshiba, Acer, Sony, Lenovo and others.

Toshiba and the American Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC for short) decided to issue a recall of the Sony made batteries for laptops that are using the lithium-ion energy storing technology. According to the CPSC, cited by the news site DailyTech consumers should cease to use batteries from the recalled lots immediately for safety reasons. Toshiba and CPSC estimate that around 1,400 units are defective and those batteries come from the following models of laptops Satellite A100, Satellite A105 and Tecra A7.

It was observed that the lithium-ion batteries may overheat in certain conditions, sometimes even causing fire. Toshiba even received three reports of overheating batteries from outside the United States. Customers that purchased one of the defective batteries were told to contact their respective vendor and apply for a new free battery. Since last year, more than 10 million lithium ion laptop batteries were recalled from customers on the global scale.

The last such measure was undertaken by the Asian computer manufacturer and vendor Acer in April when it called back more than 27,000 defective batteries that were having the very same problems. Sony, as one of the biggest laptop battery parts manufacturer is having problems as the number of defective and recalled batteries rises to record heights. CPSc and Toshiba suggest that users that are having one of the defective batteries can still use their computers by removing the battery and using the AC adapter and power cord in order to power the system until a replacement battery is received.