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UPDATE No Malfunctioning Batteries in Vaios

The battery recall is over

By Anca Rusu, Technology Editor

29th of August 2006, 10:17 GMT

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After Vaio's 10th celebration, here comes the second Sony statement regarding battery recall. According to Rick Clancy, a spokesman for Sony Electronics, cited by Daily Tech, there were only two reported incidents which involved Vaio notebooks and the batteries were some fake ones.


"As far as Vaio PCs are concerned we don't anticipate any need for a recall at this time, and that's true from our understanding of other manufacturers we supply this technology to as well...there's no indication that there's an excessive number of situations that have occurred that would warrant this type of action," stated Clancy, cited by Daily Tech.

Yesterday, Sony decided to come forward and explain why are the notebooks exploding after a total recall of no less than 6 million malfunctioning batteries developed by Sony, which have been integrated into notebooks that are Dell, Apple, HP or Lenovo branded, and after the Qantas decision to ban the usage of Dell notebooks that are powered by batteries in its aircrafts.

"Sony said in an official statement that the recall arises because, on rare occasions, microscopic metal particles in the recalled battery cells may come into contact with other parts of the battery cell, leading to a short circuit within the cell. Typically, a battery pack will simply power off when a cell short circuit occurs. However, under certain rare conditions, an internal short circuit may lead to cell overheating and potentially flames, the company indicated. The potential for this to occur can be affected by variations in the system configurations found in different notebook computers," reported X-bit Labs.
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