The Japanese electronics company Sony and the computer manufacturer Toshiba again call back fire hazards Dell xps m1730 battery. Having had exchanged in previous months, companies such as Apple, Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo batteries manufactured by Sony because of possible risks of fire, holding Sony back until you finally as the actual manufacturer of the batteries began to those from their own laptops to recall it. In the last days has now been announced that Sony would have to change besides the already announced 90 000 notebooks will further 110000-160000.

For now, around 340 million euros from Sony for the cost of the recall campaign scheduled. However, these are hardly sufficient to finance one of the most largest recalls in history. Production errors were the reason for the recall of lithium-ion Dell Latitude D400 battery. In motion the avalanche came in August, when Dell 4.1 million batteries because of overheating or fire called back. Because this series of recalls for laptop batteries, Sony has its earnings forecast for the current fiscal year 2006/07 decreased down hard.

As the company announced the net profit should amount to now have the equivalent of 537 million euros. They are about 38 percent less than the previous profit forecast. According to press reports would resign despite the massive recall of laptop batteries or chief executive Howard Stringer Ryoji Chubachi President yet. It had been in production, development and maintenance of already taken steps to avoid recurrence of such problems. Sony will keep the business firmly weiiterhin but with the Dell Latitude E6500 battery. This recall Sony did not just financial, but also with image problems to result.

According to Sony, the recall announcement was due to the fact that could occur in the recalled battery cells, microscopic metal particles with other parts of the Dell Inspiron 1501 battery in contact, so that a short circuit within the cell. Typically, a battery pack in turn when a cell short circuit occurs easily. Nevertheless, an internal short circuit may, under certain rare circumstances, lead to overheating and potentially flames inside the cell. The probability of occurrence of such a case could be affected by variations in system configuration, found in different notebook computers. The problem-causing batteries are used in both the Sony computers as well as in products such as Dell, Apple and Toshiba.