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Lenovo battery fire under investigation by Sony E-mail
by Stan Beer   
Saturday, 23 September 2006
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Japanese Lithium Ion battery manufacturer Sony has confirmed that it is looking into reports that a Lenovo Thinkpad notebook computer which caught fire at an airport was loaded with a Sony battery.

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The Thinkpad model, which reportedly caught fire at Los Angeles International Airport last week as a passenger was about to board a plane, uses Sony batteries but can also use batteries fromother manufacturers. Lenovo has yet to confirm whether it was in fact a Sony battery in the Thinkpad which burst into flames.

Sony is still reeling from the negative publicity it has received in the past month following the two largest notebook battery recalls on record from Dell and Apple, in which a combined total of six million batteries were recalled.

Three airlines have temporarily imposed bans on using the notebook models from Dell and Apple with batteries.


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