Sanyo Electric Co., manufacturer of the laptop batteries recalled this week by Lenovo, claimed Friday the defects causing overheating are limited to Lenovo battery packs only, CMP reports.
The recalled nine-cell battery packs were designed based on Lenovo’s specifications for its notebook computers, according to Sanyo.
“The pack design for other PC vendors’ models is different. We believe the trouble won’t spread to other PCs,” said a Sanyo spokesman.
Sanyo claims that in all the five overheating cases battery packs were obviously damaged when laptops were dropped. It cited a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) statement on Thursday that the cause was not an internal cell defect, as with Sony batteries recalled massively last year.
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