Dell to Recall 4.1 Million Exploding or Overheating Laptop Batteries
Dell hit the news recently for their exploding laptops and now they are recalling nearly 4.1 million Laptop batteries from the market. The batteries which are being recalled are made my Sony Corp. and this is the largest recall ever made by Dell.
The recall for the defective batteries come after Dell started working with U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for resolving this issue.
Dell Inc., the world’s largest personal computer maker, said Monday it would recall 4.1 million notebook computer batteries with cells made by Sony Corp., the largest recall in Dell’s history.
Dell said it issued the recall in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission because the devices’ lithium-ion batteries could overheat and, in rare cases, produce smoke and catch fire, Dell spokesman Jess Blackburn said.
The recall of batteries in Dell notebooks sold from April 2004 through last month spans the company’s assortment of Latitude, Inspiron and Precision models, Blackburn said.
Blackburn also said that the recall would have no “material impact” on Round Rock, Texas,-based Dell. Officials from Sony Energy Devices Corp. of Japan, which made the cells, could not immediately be reached for comment.
It may be due to design failure. They may have to analyse it furthur in their lab before releasing it to the market. Know what? Few years before, US launched a space rocket for a particular mission. Every stage is a success but at final stage the satellite exploded! Committe (organised for analysing the reason for failure) later told the NASA agency that unit conversion (read it again!) between Russian engnieers and US engineers lead to the failure! Costly lesson.
This unit conversion thing is really interesting
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