laptop battery

The cell phone industry and notebook computer industry's rapid development has exceeded the pace of development of laptop battery technology, product features but also increasingly to improve the battery performance in an increasingly high demand.

     Frequently the lithium battery incident prompted some manufacturers to take a more cautious approach. Toyota Motor has postponed the hybrid vehicles use lithium latitude battery on the plan. Nevertheless, industry experts still believe that, despite limitations of lithium batteries, but in the foreseeable future, it remains the most practical battery technology.

     Sony announced this week, the company will spend 97.6 million U.S. dollars in Singapore to build a mobile phone 1691P manufacturing plant to consolidate its market share. The plant will use more advanced lithium-ion polymer technology, the factory is expected to be operational in August next year, on the initial production capacity will reach 1 million by 2010, will reach 8 million. Toshiba is currently working hard to develop alternative energy technologies, such as fuel cells, batteries not to use such chemicals, but there is still a considerable battery business into a long way to go.

     Matsushita is the world's top four manufacturers of lithium 75UYF, the company said that its battery problems in the manufacturing process. When used to prevent a short circuit occurred insulation damaged, will result in overheating. Nokia said that so far, Panasonic lithium batteries overheating problem caused by only 100 reported, but no serious casualties. Nevertheless, Nokia will continue to take preventive measures to replace all the production date in December 2005 and November 2006 between the origin of similar batteries for Osaka.

     Matsushita is expected to bear most of the costs of replacement 8N544 at an estimated cost of up to 170 million U.S. dollars. Impact of the news yesterday on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Matsushita shares fell nearly 5 percent, to close at 2,015 yen on.