Beijing May 15 early morning news, according to foreign media reports, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (hereinafter referred to as “CPSC”) Thursday announced that in two reports that Hewlett-Packard laptop battery fire, the company said it would have taken the initiative to recall and several at the same time Hewlett-Packard and Compaq notebooks shipped 70,000 lithium-ion battery.
CPSC Web site, said the activities of the laptop battery recall affects HP Pavilion models of nine, nine Presarios Compaq models, two models, as well as a Hewlett-Packard Compaq models, these models sold in time for August 2007 to March 2008.
There are two previously reported, HP notebook batteries due to “overheating damaged and caused the fire, causing minor property damage”, but no casualties.
HP is notified of the recall may be related to the activities of customers, so that they remove the laptop battery and notebook found at the above link by HP. Hewlett-Packard said, it will replace the batteries free of charge to customers.
And Hewlett-Packard, like many other competitors in the same industry have been previously carried out several similar activities in the battery recall, the latest one was the end of last year recovered 100,000 Sony batteries, these batteries due to overheating and failure. Prior to this, Hewlett-Packard sold 3.2 million notebooks to use these batteries, but in 2006 the massive Sony battery recall activities, this figure represents only a small part.
CPSC Web site, said the activities of the laptop battery recall affects HP Pavilion models of nine, nine Presarios Compaq models, two models, as well as a Hewlett-Packard Compaq models, these models sold in time for August 2007 to March 2008.
There are two previously reported, HP notebook batteries due to “overheating damaged and caused the fire, causing minor property damage”, but no casualties.
HP is notified of the recall may be related to the activities of customers, so that they remove the laptop battery and notebook found at the above link by HP. Hewlett-Packard said, it will replace the batteries free of charge to customers.
And Hewlett-Packard, like many other competitors in the same industry have been previously carried out several similar activities in the battery recall, the latest one was the end of last year recovered 100,000 Sony batteries, these batteries due to overheating and failure. Prior to this, Hewlett-Packard sold 3.2 million notebooks to use these batteries, but in 2006 the massive Sony battery recall activities, this figure represents only a small part.
