Toshiba Recalls Laptop Batteries

Washington (dbTechno) - Toshiba is recalling over 1,400 lithium-ion batteries which were sold in three of their notebook PCs, the Satellite A100, Satellite A105, and Tecra A7.

The recall is a part of a huge recall which was put out back on July 17th. This simply builds on that original recall. The original recall involved 5,100 Sony-manufactured laptop batteries for 17 other models including many from the Toshiba line such as Qosimo, Tecra, etc.

Toshiba stated that the batteries were recalled due to “certain incidents” where battery packs caught on fire when running in the notebook computers.

Sony stated that cells in the batteries which were manufactured in a specific location could have caused the problem.

The recall affected laptops made by Toshiba, Apple, Dell, Gateway, Lenovo, Sony, and Fujitsu. The recalled batteries should stop being used immediately.

Consumers affected by this can run the Toshiba BatteryCheck utility on the Toshiba web site.