Sanyo Blamed in Lenovo Battery Recall

ukhackster writes "Those overheating laptop batteries are back. Lenovo is recalling 205,000 'extended' batteries which shipped with its ThinkPad machines, or were bought as replacements. Slashdot readers will doubtless remember the flak which Sony attracted last year, after it was blamed for exploding Dell notebooks and several massive recalls. This time, the batteries were made by Sanyo. Their engineers determined that the failure was repeatable by dropping machines using the batteries from a certain height and at a certain angle. As soon as the repeatable nature of the flaw was determined, a recall was issued."

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Not the first Sanyo Battery Recall....

[8127972]

.... as there have been others:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0 DE2DB1731F93BA35751C1A9609C8B63
http://www.techspot.com/news/23809-sanyo-faces-13m -cellphone-battery-recall.html

I guess this proves that it's not just Sony that puts the "boom" into laptops.

Also they'll make Sanyo pay

[Umbrel]

Since they were made by Sanyo, there's a good chance they can make Sanyo accountable for at least part of their loss.

92P1131

[squiggleslash]

The details of the recall are here. Essentially, if you have a battery of model type 92P1131, then you need to be concerned.

My battery was affected...

[Mad Merlin]

You give Lenovo your ThinkPad product and serial number, battery serial number, shipping address and they'll ship you a new battery in 4-6 weeks. Go to it if you have a battery of model 92P1131.

You can use `cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info | grep model` to find your battery model without removing it.