Gateway recalls overheating notebook batteries

Lithium-
Some ion battery packs that come with Gateway Inc.
Laptops pose a fire hazard, resulting in voluntary recalls by Gateway and the United States on Tuesday. S.
Consumer Product Safety Committee
The committee said in a press release that the battery pack could overheat and pose a fire hazard.
Gateway received 4 reports of overheating of the battery pack, resulting in some minor property damage.
There were no reports of injuries.
Some gateways have about 14,000 battery packs for the main or standby power supply for 400VTX and the goprog series laptops-
Identified by part number 6500760 or 6500761-were recalled.
Part numbers and \"SMP manufacturing\" are printed on labels on the underside of the battery pack.
Gateway said in a statement that the batteries were sold from May 2003 to August 2003.
It is not a defect inside the battery, the commission said.
Battery pack recall is a separate case involving a manufacturer that differs from the massive recall of Sony battery last year.
Toshiba on Tuesday
They admitted that a laptop that had not been replaced by a recalled Sony battery pack suddenly caught fire in the UK last month.
This is the third suspected fire involving a defective battery in a Toshiba laptop. Sony Corp.
Last year, a massive recall was announced after lithium was discovered.
The ion battery will overheat and catch fire.
More than 10 million laptop batteries are affected, including those used by Dell. , Lenovo Inc. , Apple Inc. and Acer Inc.
In light of the recent fire, Toshiba, a Japanese electronics maker, said it would step up its efforts to reach all customers who may have recalled battery pack laptops.
According to Toshiba\'s data, the fire on Toshiba\'s laptop computer occurred in Brazil in December 2006 and Japan in April.
Sony says these problems are caused by tiny metal particles inside the battery that cause the battery to be short-circuitedcircuit.