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Engineers Explain Why the Galaxy Note 7 Caught Fire (digitaltrends.com)
Engineers with manufacturing technology company Instrumental tore apart a Galaxy Note 7 to try and figure out what may have caused some devices to overheat and explode, causing Samsung to recall and eventually cancel all Galaxy Note 7 devices. In their damning new report, the engineers discovered the root of the problem appears to be that the battery is too tightly packed inside the body of the Note 7. Digital Trends reports: They discovered the battery was so tightly packed inside the Galaxy Note 7's body that any pressure from battery expansion, or stress on the body itself, may squeeze together layers inside the battery that are never supposed to touch -- with explosive results. Batteries swell up under normal use, and we place stress on a phone's body by putting it our pocket and sitting down, or if it's dropped. Tolerances for battery expansion are built into a smartphone during design, and Instrumental notes Samsung used "a super-aggressive manufacturing process to maximize capacity." In other words, the Galaxy Note 7 was designed to be as thin and sleek as possible, while containing the maximum battery capacity for long use, thereby better competing against rival devices such as the iPhone 7 Plus and improving on previous Note models. The report speculates that any pressure placed on the battery in its confined space may have squeezed together positive and negative layers inside the cell itself, which were thinner than usual in the Note 7's battery already, causing them to touch, heat up, and eventually in some cases, catch fire. Delving deeper into the design, the engineers say the space above a battery inside a device needs a "ceiling" that equates to approximately 10 percent of the overall thickness. The Galaxy Note 7 should have had a 0.5mm ceiling; it had none.
This is bad. Very bad. If substantiated, the lawsuits against Samsung are going to be epic.
Correction, I meant "physical engineer". But if you were a psychical engineer, you'd know that already.
Table-ized A.I.
What about stop making stuff super thin?
Hopefully this provides some motivation to stop equating thin with better.
Nah, who am I kidding, people are stupid.
Not just minimum. Below minimum or none at all.
Intolerant tolerances will not be tolerated!
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
it doesn't really matter if it was a lithium explosion or lithium fire that burned off your cock, if your cock is still burned off.
Exactly. You don't want "fire-balls" in any sense of the word.
Software "engineers" at best.
This is the company in question. https://www.instrumental.ai/te...
It's a small startup of 9 people with no history. None of the people are even listed as mechanical engineers. They're all software engineers (which isn't a recognized profession, by the way) and business people. Not a one among them has the authority to make any claims about the Note 7. None of them have the actual experience with the Note 7 to do so either - they had a single sample that they couldn't actually do anything with other than write the blog post and fish it out to tech sites for hits and to get their name out there.
It is, but not logical in that way. Fashion demonstrates that you can do something other people can't - whether it's spend more money, wear something that is inconvenient because you don't have to work, etc. What it's definitely not is about "getting something done efficiently". Quite the contrary, and hence the assumption of a lack of logic.