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Mar 16, 2010
Battery Boost:Self-Assembled Nanocomposite Materials to Increase Capacity

A new high-performance anode structure based on silicon-carbon nanocomposite materials could significantly improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries(thinkpad r50 battery,thinkpad r52 battery) used in a wide range of applications from hybrid vehicles to portable electronics.

Produced with a "bottom-up" self-assembly technique, the new structure takes advantage of nanotechnology to fine-tune its materials properties, addressing the shortcomings of earlier silicon-based battery anodes. The simple, low-cost fabrication technique was designed to be easily scaled up and compatible with existing thinkpad r40 battery manufacturing.

Details of the new self-assembly approach were published online in the journal Nature Materials on March 14.

"Development of a novel approach to producing hierarchical anode or cathode particles with controlled properties opens the door to many new directions for lithium-ion battery technology," said Gleb Yushin, an assistant professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "This is a significant step toward commercial production of silicon-based anode materials for lithium-ion batteries(thinkpad r52 battery,thinkpad r40 battery)."

The popular and lightweight batteries work by transferring lithium ions between two electrodes -- a cathode and an anode -- through a liquid electrolyte. The more efficiently the lithium ions can enter the two electrodes during charge and discharge cycles, the larger the battery's capacity will be,40y7659 adapter.

Existing lithium-ion batteries(thinkpad r50 battery,thinkpad r60 battery) rely on anodes made from graphite, a form of carbon. Silicon-based anodes theoretically offer as much as a ten-fold capacity improvement over graphite, but silicon-based anodes have so far not been stable enough for practical use.

Graphite anodes use particles ranging in size from 15 to 20 microns. If silicon particles of that size are simply substituted for the graphite, expansion and contraction as the lithium ions enter and leave the silicon creates cracks that quickly cause the anode to fail.

The new nanocomposite material solves that degradation problem, potentially allowing battery designers to tap the capacity advantages of silicon. That could facilitate higher power output from a given thinkpad r60 battery size -- or allow a smaller battery to produce a required amount of power.

"At the nanoscale, we can tune materials properties with much better precision than we can at traditional size scales," said Yushin. "This is an example of where having nanoscale fabrication techniques leads to better materials."

Electrical measurements of the new composite anodes in small coin cells showed they had a capacity more than five times greater than the theoretical capacity of graphite.

Fabrication of the composite anode begins with formation of highly conductive branching structures -- similar to the branches of a tree -- made from carbon black nanoparticles annealed in a high-temperature tube furnace. Silicon nanospheres with diameters of less than 30 nanometers are then formed within the carbon structures using a chemical vapor deposition process. The silicon-carbon composite structures resemble "apples hanging on a tree."

Using graphitic carbon as an electrically-conductive binder, the silicon-carbon composites are then self-assembled into rigid spheres that have open, interconnected internal pore channels. The spheres, formed in sizes ranging from 10 to 30 microns, are used to form battery anodes. The relatively large composite powder size -- a thousand times larger than individual silicon nanoparticles -- allows easy powder processing for anode fabrication.

The internal channels in the silicon-carbon spheres serve two purposes. They admit liquid electrolyte to allow rapid entry of lithium ions for quick battery charging, and they provide space to accommodate expansion and contraction of the silicon without cracking the anode. The internal channels and nanometer-scale particles also provide short lithium diffusion paths into the anode, boosting lenovo battery power characteristics.

The size of the silicon particles is controlled by the duration of the chemical vapor deposition process and the pressure applied to the deposition system. The size of the carbon nanostructure branches and the size of the silicon spheres determine the pore size in the composite.

Production of the silicon-carbon composites could be scaled up as a continuous process amenable to ultra high-volume powder manufacturing, Yushin said. Because the final composite spheres are relatively large when they are fabricated into anodes, the self-assembly technique avoids the potential health risks of handling nanoscale powders, he added.

Once fabricated, the nanocomposite anodes would be used in batteries just like conventional graphite structures. That would allow battery manufacturers to adopt the new anode material without making dramatic changes in production processes.

So far, the researchers have tested the new anode through more than a hundred charge-discharge cycles. Yushin believes the material would remain stable for thousands of cycles because no degradation mechanisms have become apparent.

"If this technology can offer a lower cost on a capacity basis, or lighter weight compared to current techniques, this will help advance the market for lithium batteries," he said. "If we are able to produce less expensive batteries(thinkpad r50 battery,thinkpad r40 battery) that last for a long time, this could also facilitate the adoption of many 'green' technologies, such as electric vehicles or solar cells."

In addition to Yushin, the paper's authors included Alexandre Magasinki, Patrick Dixon and Benjamin Hertzberg -- all from Georgia Tech -- and Alexander Kvit from the Materials Science Center and Materials Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jorge Ayala from Superior Graphite. The paper also acknowledges the contributions of Alexander Alexeev at Georgia Tech and Igor Luzinov from Clemson University.

The news comes from http://batterytimes.info/battery-boostself-assembled-nanocomposite-materials-to-increase-capacity/


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Mar 1, 2010
Battery-recycling law in force

Under a European directive, every shop selling more than a pack of batteries a day will be forced to accept old batteries for recycling and most are expected to set up in-store collection points, typically in the form of a cardboard box by the door. Some town halls, libraries and schools will voluntarily offer the service.Hope laptop batteries can be recycled.(lenovo battery)

The change will bring Britain into line with many mainland European countries, where recycling boxes for batteries have been a common sight in shops for years.

Britons use over 600 million batteries every year ¨C an average of 21 per household ¨C but the UK has a dismal record in recycling them. thinkpad t60 battery, thinkpad t61 battery.The overwhelming majority, 97 per cent, are thrown into domestic bins and end up in landfill, where their toxic metals lead, cadmium and mercury leach out into the ground and pollute water courses.

The Waste Batteries and Accumulators Regulations 2009 is the latest attempt, following the Landfill and WEE EU directives, to transform Britain into a greener society which dumps fewer materials.

It incorporates into British law the 2006 EU Batteries directive, which set a series of targets for the recycling of portable batteries used to power toys,thinkpad t60 battery,thinkpad t61 battery, torches and other gadgets. From the current 3 per cent, the UK will have to recycle 25 per cent of used batteries by 2012 and 45 per cent by 2016.

Any high street or online retailer selling more than 32kg of batteries a year, the equivalent of one pack of 4 AA batteries a day, will have to provide recycling bins or facilities.

Increasing recycling will cut greenhouse gases linked to battery production, says the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), which estimates that hitting the 2016 target could save 12,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions annually.

¡°This new legislation will make it easier for consumers to do the right thing whilst ensuring retailers fulfil their part of the bargain,¡± said Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for the Environment.

¡°Old batteries (40Y6799,92p1089,40Y6795) can cause harm to the environment when they are not recycled. The new approach to disposal of batteries will help to reduce the number of batteries that now end up in landfill.¡±

Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury¡¯s, Robert Dyas, Dixon¡¯s, Curry¡¯s and PC World are among shops offering free battery recycling.

The blog comes from http://batterywatch.info/battery-recycling-law-in-force/


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Feb 2, 2010
Something about Lenovo batteries

We buy a notebook, is the value of its mobility. Today's laptop computers, are all built of Health have a good, so we are all generally small size of the view that mobility is better. In fact, not necessarily to decide whether the notebook mobility of qualified, but also an important factor. Why? We can imagine that if you buy a smaller size laptop, but Lenovo battery life is not ideal, but not the kind of depressed mood to vent. Today, on Xiaobian to tell you is that, on the notebook's battery-related knowledge. First of all, we have to find out the type of notebook batteries. At present, the use of the laptop batteries were divided into three types: 1. Nickel-chromium batteries, 2. Ni-MH battery, 3. Lithium batteries(such as thinkpad x60 battery,thinkpad x60s battery). They said that on the side: Ni-Cd NI-CD, Ni-MH NI-MH, Li-electric LI.

Nickel-cadmium (niege) Battery: It is the end of the 19th century by the Swedish inventor of such batteries have the so-called memory effect, what is the specific memory effect, we just give an example, you: When a battery is fully charged, It can be a continuous electrical discharge 60 minutes. Now we have to use this section of the batteries for electric discharge, discharge to 30 minutes to stop, and then this section for charging the thinkpad x60 battery, good and sufficient power to continue to discharge after 30 minutes, each time for not fully discharged, after repeated operations N This section will have a battery memory effect, after the use of the process, when the battery discharge after 30 minutes, it is no longer the output current, that is to say, this section of the battery capacity has been cut in half. Ni-Cd memory effect is very serious.

Ni-MH battery: Ni-Cr early battery alternatives, greatly reduces the nickel-cadmium batteries in the existence of a "memory effect", which makes nickel-metal hydride can be more convenient to use. Nickel-metal hydride batteries and nickel-cadmium are basically the same as the cathode, are for the positive electrode nickel hydroxide. The main difference is the nickel-cadmium batteries used in the cathode active material is cadmium, nickel metal hydride batteries and high-energy based hydrogen storage alloy for the negative electrode, the nickel-metal hydride batteries have more energy.

  • 1, the energy density than nickel-cadmium twice as large.
  • 2, round after round of 500 to complete the cycle of charge and discharge.
  • 3, with the door side of the charger can be recharged in one hour fast charge.
  • 4, self-discharge characteristics than the nickel-cadmium batteries, rechargeable can be retained for a longer time.
  • 5, up to 3 times more efficient discharge in a row.
  • Lithium battery: lithium battery is from a class of lithium metal or lithium alloy anode materials for the use of non-aqueous electrolyte solution of the battery. 20 of these batteries is the actual success of the development of a new type of high-energy thinkpad x60s battery,thinkpad x40 battery,thinkpad x60 battery, has a high-energy, high-voltage battery, operating temperature range, long storage life, and other advantages.

    Lithium batteries have a home page features 7:00:

  • 1, high-energy high-density. Lithium-ion batteries are the same weight capacity of Ni-Cd or Ni-MH battery half of the volume is 40-50% of the nickel-cadmium, nickel hydrogen 20-30%.
  • 2, high-voltage, a single lithium battery's voltage to the work of 3.7V (average), the equivalent of three series of nickel-cadmium or nickel-metal hydride .
  • 3, pollution-free, lithium-ion thinkpad x30 battery do not contain such as cadmium, lead, mercury and such harmful metals.
  • 4, does not contain lithium and lithium-ion battery does not contain lithium, which is not on the Prohibition of the transport plane carrying aircraft in the lithium battery, and other provisions.
  • 5, high cycle life, under normal conditions, lithium-ion charge and discharge cycles can be more than 500 times.
  • 6, no memory effect, the memory effect is the nickel-cadmium batteries in the charge-discharge cycle, reducing the capacity of the battery. Lithium-ion batteries that effect does not exist.
  • 7, the use of rated voltage of 4.2V voltage constant current charger can make lithium-ion battery in 1-2 hours to be in full charge.
  • Well, to find out about the battery type and characteristics, we come to find out the battery power of the issue.

    There are a lot of people buy a laptop when the battery is about to start, and configure their business only on a single reading of the battery capacity of xxxxmAh not write battery voltage, in fact, the true reprint battery energy is not the size of the unit mAh but Wh. Battery power is based on a formula: battery power (Wh) = battery voltage (V) x battery capacity (Ah). Please note that here is the battery capacity Ah, not mAh, 1Ah = 1000mAh. For example, touch the block is the nominal 10.8V/2200mAh, it is the power of 10.8Vx2200mAh/1000 = 23.76Wh. The battery voltage and capacity in general will be marked on the battery, their calculations on the know. Some manufacturers will not be marked on the battery specifications, so we can only use the software to be tested.

    Battery power in this respect we need to note that the replacement of the battery problems. And the battery charger is inseparable, that is, we are talking about normal power supply. If you want to replace the thinkpad x60s battery, you may choose the same model to use the same power, we can be assured that the replacement of business when you have to be clear. At the same time, the Chargers also need the attention. All notebook models of voltage and current, and even interfaces are different, common to a variety of models with "compatible charger", more expensive than the original. Even the interface is like, different voltage and current notebook is not working. If the voltage lower than the current standard of value, then the laptop at full speed in the work will lead to shortage of power supply, so that the battery is a lot of harm. If the voltage higher than the current standard of value, notebook and even the roots will not be able to boot or not to start charging, the board may eventually lead to burning. So choose a good charger, the notebook's maintenance is very important.

    There are many of my friends are concerned about this problem because there is no knowledge that it dares not reckless action. On the one hand, is a charger, if the batteries die, you can replace the batteries.

    In fact, there is also a battery inside the batteries, long way from our usual battery used almost only to be larger. Many of the batteries are designed with a self-locking function, in other words, once out of control circuit, it will enter the self-locking state. Into the self-locking state battery, will not be able to work on the battery become obsolete, only certain way in order to unlock, which only professional engineers can. Therefore, we can only choose to replace the battery core.Thinkpad x30 Battery replacement can not be so arbitrary, and we hope to find more professional personnel to replace. If his replacement, an end-of-life battery is small, but that effort did not succeed in the fight against what is the most depressing.

    Most people should be worried about is that the bombing of the notebook, in fact, we may very puzzled why the battery and then the explosion? The main reason is that manufacturers should be poor-quality work, resulting in the use of short-circuit in an explosion injuries. However, there are also a part of the reason is because the user caused by improper use. Many users may encounter such problems, only when the battery charge to 99% charge is less than 100%. In fact, this is only a problem if the charge to 99% can not continue to charge the thinkpad x40 battery, that has been filled. If we or always sufficient, the last on the battery is likely to lead to an explosion.


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    Jan 17, 2010
    The birth of high-capacity lithium batteries

    Today, Li-ion battery technology has become the most widely used energy technologies, such as it may be the development of core technology of electric vehicles. Whereas in the former these days, QinetiQ - UK's National Defense Science and Technology Co., scientists have developed a new type of lithium lenovo battery, the scientists it called "lithium iron sulfide batteries."

    This new type of lithium battery is the original thinkpad x40 battery capacity 1.6 times the size of the battery when compared with the same volume, their power increased by 50% and 50% of its cost savings, which is an important research results. But the scientists also said that because the thinkpad x40 battery discharge in the chemical reaction is very unstable, especially under conditions of vibration may be a security issue, so this technology is still to be perfected.

    But no matter what the emergence of a new lithium battery or lithium battery technology has taken an important step in the development, but we can only hope that this new type of lithium batteries as soon as possible into our lives to .


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    Dec 29, 2009
    How Does Lenovo Laptop Battery Work

    A laptop battery works in much the same way as batteries that go into portable CD players, remote controls, and shower radios. Just like the batteries used in these household items, laptop batteries come in different sizes based upon the size of the laptop. Laptop batteries however, contain within them complex charging circuitry that works together with a laptop¡¯s hardware.

    Inside each laptop battery are internal power cells. These power cells are arranged in a series and are parallel to each other. This is done in order to maximize the voltage level for the lenovo battery as a whole. In addition these cells are controlled by a circuit board. The circuit board regulates how the cells work for both the process of discharging and recharging energy. It makes sure that your battery is not overcharged when charging, and it makes sure that each cell drains the same amount so you can have a longer run time.

    Inside each battery there are also positive and negative electrodes. In order to power your laptop, a chemical reaction occurs with both the positive and negative electrodes. This reaction flows in a specific way in order to discharge energy. Plugging in your adapter reverses this process in order to recharge your thinkpad t60 battery. The process of reversing the chemical reaction occurs for both positive and negative electrodes. To make both the discharge of energy as well as recharge process work, this process must be exact. If not, then a short-circuit may occur. This process is basically the same whether your battery runs on Lithium Ion (Li-Ion), Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH), or Lithium Polymer (Li-Poly).

    This process is then regulated by hardware within your laptop. The hardware in your laptop ensures that the cells are functioning to their capacity. This is what also allows you to check the life left on your thinkpad t60 battery before it needs to be recharged. A battery symbol is typically displayed on the right corner of your task bar. This symbol graphically shows how much energy has been discharged as well as how much is left.

    Although a laptop battery is rechargeable, it does have a limited life span. A typical battery usually lasts for about 500-700 charges before it will no longer be capable of recharging, and a replacement is necessary. The amount of charges can vary depending on the main use of your laptop. Some functions require more energy then others. Using functions such as a DVD player or using the brigh test screen setting can drain the battery quicker, thus requiring it to be charged sooner. The more often you need to charge your thinkpad t61 battery, the sooner the battery will be drained of its life span.

    Manufacturers will additionally custom tailor their laptop batteries based upon the needs of each laptop model. A few things that impact the appearance of a battery are the overall size and weight of a laptop. After all, a small notebook would be difficult to carry if the battery weighed an additional two pounds. These factors account for their varying sizes. One size does not fit all in the world of laptop manufacturing. Overall functionality is the key.


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    Dec 9, 2009
    Do you really use laptop batteries

    Long-term use to connect the power of the notebook, how can we save the battery?

    1. the battery use of the program

    Most notebooks have the automatic down-conversion function, so that the benefits of the books is to maximize lenovo battery life. Many people who use the Celeron may have questions about books, our books do not have this feature, is not naturally less power out? CPU is only one part of the cost of electricity, in fact, the order should be like electricity: LCD> CPU (speed) "graphics" Wireless LAN> CPU fan. In other words, in addition to CPU, we can also start from other areas, the maximum reduction in power consumption.

    In the Windows XP Control Panel, there is a power management option, the "power scheme", the set up LCD screen is idle about 10 minutes off the most reasonable, while the hard disk will have to set more than 15 minutes more appropriate. The hard disk to start the moment requires a certain power did not say, frequent start and stop the damage to the hard drive is quite big. Of course, you can also manually turn off the screen, most of the books through fn function key + F3 to achieve.

    Set LCD, hard drive shut down time, if you want to further conserve thinkpad x40 battery power, but also need to adjust the operation of the system state, it is not a Windows XP can do. With Thinkpad, for example, most of the books have a built-in battery management software, general books will provide eight screen brightness adjustment, although the brightest state of access to the best visual effects, but it is very, very power-hungry, so , edit a document or some other general applications to adjust the screen brightness to a lower 6 or 7 the most appropriate. At the same time, CPU can also set the best battery performance, CPU fan running status set to "balanced" more reasonable.

    Some low-priced books there is no battery management software (because there is no built-in power management chip), but you can use a common battery monitoring software to manage the battery.Sample used in the thinkpad T43 battery, running at full speed when playing DVD discs, the battery usage time is only 2 hours 37 minutes, while the optimized program can be achieved when using a long 3 hours 17 minutes or so, raise obvious. Set the screen brightness, CPU speed, fan speed .

    2. the correct charging method

    Many people use books the battery, I saw that the power began to charge less than 100%, but this would accelerate the reduction of the total capacity of lithium battery power for a long time go, battery life much shorter time, but also greatly shortened life expectancy . It is therefore recommended to limit the charge less than 10% re-charge, and be mindful not to set too low, such as the use to only about 3% charge left, which is not enough science. Power shortages must be set up when the alarm is generally less than 10% of the police as well, less than 3% of the serious alarm means that the battery has been insufficient to support the boot into the system the next time. A lot of battery management software is less than 96% of the default start charging, so charge will damage the battery, so be sure to change this setting. In addition, it is best off charge, so you can play a role in conservation of the thinkpad t42 battery.

    3. discharge necessary?

    If the books for a very long battery power considerably reduced, the depth of discharge can try to "save" it. This is a "dead horse like a living horse medicine" approach, less than a last resort, better not to do so. Discharge The easiest way is to constantly run the program, less than 3% in electricity to restart the books into the BIOS to run the vacancy until the automatic power-off date. Then the depth of charge, charging time to reach eight hours, but not more than 12 hours, which would allow Li-ion battery to restore some power.


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    Nov 25, 2009
    Lenovo laptop Battery History

    First let me say for the past 30 years, I've loved the company you created.lenovo laptop battery Working there was a wonderful experience, and in those days the HP Way was something to be proud of. But I have to tell you, things are seriously broken. It's not in the hand-held group. Ken Dobbie there is doing a great job.

    Then there are the laptop folks. You need to know that I've been buying HP printers, ink, paper,lenovo thinkpad t40 Battery, handhelds and laptops ever since I worked there. As it happens, I bought this HP Pavilion dv6000 laptop because we were working for HP and they wanted us to use their products. I can only imagine how you guys would have reacted if I'd told you that the the report you commissioned from me would be three weeks late because the product that you designed, produced and sold me didn't work. The good news is, I'm no longer working on the HP account, so I guess it doesn't matter.

    But you really would be appalled by how they respond to loyal customers these days. First they told me via email it would be back on July 27th. They lied. On July 27th as I waited in the office until dark thinking that maybe FedEx would come, they emailed me to say that it would ship August 3rd. On the 3rd, I once again made arrangements to ensure that if Fed Ex were to deliver the laptop, someone would be there to sign for it, only to find out that no, they lied again. It hadn't been shipped at all. And in fact, due to screw ups in logistics, no one seems to be able to tell me when it WILL be returned. The obvious truth is that they bought bad parts, should have recalled them or at least ordered more replacements, and when they started to fail in large numbers, got overwhelmed in support and are now in utter chaos. I know that this is NOT the HP WAY you had in mind. And it probably isn't the HP that Mark Hurd envisioned either.Thinkpad t40 Battery, But its a bit hard to say that he inherited these guys.... The problem is that this does seem to be the new Way. I"m clearly not the only one with this kind of problem.

    I know what you would have done. You would have taken a new working laptop, put my old hard drive in the new machine and sent it back to me. Their latest email to me indicates that someone will contact me in the next three working days to let me know what is up. Of course by that time I will have bought a new Dell laptop and IBM will have lost a die-hard fan of some 30 years. Sorry Bill and Dave.

    In the last two parts of this series, I covered the factors of temperature and charging. While the high temperatures inside modern laptops are probably the worst enemy of a Li-ion thinkpad T42 battery, frequent discharge/charge cycles will negatively influence a battery¡¯s life. If your laptop is a desktop replacement, then you probably only need the battery every now and then. It can be quite frustrating if you want to use your laptop for the first time after a year without AC, only to realize that your batteries are already dead even though you never really used them. However, thinkpad t40 Battery, 40Y6795 Battery,if you remove the battery from the laptop and store it accurately, there is a good chance that it will be in good condition when you need it next time.

    Don¡¯t store a lenovo t60 battery that is almost empty. Stored (thinkpad t42 battery), batteries continue losing energy, albeit at a much slower pace. If the stored battery is totally discharged, it could be destroyed.

    Don¡¯t store a fully charged battery. Fully charged batteries deteriorate faster than half-charged batteries. Most articles I¡¯ve read recommended storing laptop batteries with a 40¨C60% charge.

    Store the battery at a low temperature. I usually put it in the fridge. It keeps my thinkpad t60 battery fresh and crisp. Check out this table at Wikipedia. 0¡ãC (32¡ãF) seems to be the best storage temperature. I wouldn¡¯t put the battery in the freezer even though Li-ion batteries only freeze at approximately 40¡ãC.

    Store the battery in a dry place. A moist environment will accelerate discharging the battery.

    Check the thinkpad t400 battery state every now and then. I would remove it from the fridge at least every 30 days to calibrate it (fully discharge and charge).

    Let the battery warm up a little before you put it back into your laptop.If the temperature is raised too fast, it will strain the battery.

    When I started this article, Thinkpad T40 Battery,I thought I¡¯d just share a few tips I¡¯ve found on the web. But then I realized that there are quite a few things that can be done wrong with lenovo laptop battery. That¡¯s how I ended up with three articles. It is quite amazing that we can build space ships that have enough energy to fly to the moon but still have no decent portable energy sources for simple laptops. Perhaps fuel cells will change the picture in a few years.


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    Nov 15, 2009
    Lenovo Battery tips

    If you have never heard of Lenovo computers then you need to pay closer attention to the things that are going on in the computer world. Lenovo sounds familiar to the computer buyers of today because they are one of the largest personal computer manufacturers in the world but for people that have followed the personal computer business closely you may know Lenovo better by the name of the personal computer company it purchased a few years ago and that was IBM Personal Computers. Like IBM before them Lenovo is very strict on accessories for their notebooks and that goes for their lenovo batteries as well.

    Have you ever stopped to wonder why you no longer hear the name IBM on television anymore when it comes to things like laptop computers and personal computers and small computers for business? The reason you do not hear the name IBM mentioned anymore is because in 2005 IBM thinkpad t60 battery sold off its personal computer division to a company out of China called Lenovo. In typical Chinese fashion Lenovo has avoided doing a lot of advertising here in the United States and relies heavily on the IBM brand and laptop computer models like the Thinkpad to be their source of advertising. If you do an internet search on the name Thinkpad you will find the Lenovo website and if you still want to purchase the IBM Thinkpad line of laptop computers then all you need to do is follow your internet search to the Lenovo website.There you will find the line of Thinkpad laptop computers but missing is the name IBM.

    Lenovo has only been on the world stage for a very short time and after already becoming the largest personal computer maker in China Lenovo has taken the first jump into the world stage with their acquisition of the IBM computer line which now makes them the fourth largest personal computer manufacturer in the world. While you may not be seeing a lot of Lenovo advertising on the television you will find a strong internet presence that supports the Thinkpad line of laptops with a full line of accessories including thinkpad t61 battery,thinkpad t400 battery,thinkpad x60 battery.


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    Oct 11, 2009
    Dell Details on laptop Battery Recall

    Dell announced a recall today of dell laptop battery sold in many of our notebook computers over the past two years. You may have seen the recent New York Times story or have seen other details in the blogosphere. As the leader of the mobile business for Dell, I wanted to share my thoughts on this recall.

    Lithium-ion is a proven technology which has been widely used in our industry for over ten years. These batteries are not just for notebook computers ¨C they are found in many electronic products including cell phones and music players. For more information on lithium-ion safety, you can visit the Portable Rechargeable Battery Association.GD761 U4873

    I don¡¯t mind telling you this recall follows an extensive investigation, but the decision to err on the side of safety was never in doubt. My team and I come to work in Austin and around the world every day so we can put great products in the hands of our customers. There were very few incidents to go on here, and it would have been easy to justify them as anomalies. However, we¡¯re not willing to do that, because in everything that we do, it is absolutely about safety first,so there are many latpop battery replacements bring out,such as inspiron E1705 battery ,xps m1330 battery ,inspiron E1505 battery ,inspiron B120 battery .

    This is a voluntary recall of approximately 4.1 million batteries, making it one of the largest in Dell¡¯s history. Many of you are thinking that this action is a direct result of the notebook fire at a business meeting in Osaka, Japan back in June, as well as a couple of other incidents that have been posted on the Internet.

    The fact is, we are looking at safety data every single day, and this did not start when we heard about the incident in Osaka. Our technical support agents are trained to look out for anything that comes up on a call that might be indicative of a safety matter, no matter how small. When we hear about these things, we work with the customer to get them a new replacement system right away, so they can get back up and running. We then work with the customer to get the affected system back to Dell (we call this a ¡°capture¡±) so we can take a good, hard look at it. Dell has a global safety organization with engineers and experts at our centers around the world. In most of these cases, we are able to determine that the cause of the customer complaint is not a hazard for other customers. Nevertheless, we learn a lot from our customers¡¯ experience and we use this information in the future development of our products,latitude d600 battery ,latitude d500 battery. That¡¯s one reason it¡¯s great having a direct relationship with our customers.

    In very rare instances, a real safety hazard does present itself. In these cases, the customer captured systems are sent through a detailed forensic analysis, kind of like what you would see on ¡°CSI.¡± Dell has extensive lab capability for these investigations and a lot of the work is done right here. We also work with third-party labs to complete and verify this analysis, because we value independent outside opinions. In any case, our safety engineers are involved every step of the way.

    Analyzing the data is the tricky part¡ªthat¡¯s what brought us to where we are today. We¡¯re lucky that in being direct we have access not only to real-time customer data, but also can correlate that information with data from our component supply partners such as Sony, who is the manufacturer of the latitude d830 battery cells in this particular case. We look at product performance data all the time, but we give it extra scrutiny when there is a problem that might impact our customers and their well being. In this case, there was not much to go on, especially considering how few incidents there were in relation to how many notebooks Dell sells as the largest notebook brand worldwide. Since we engage directly with our customers and build every system to each customer's unique order, we know what product we have shipped to whom. We are now focused on communicating to those notebook customers impacted by this recall and making the replacement process as simple as possible. Some might say we are being conservative and even overreacting in taking this broad action, but even one more incident is too many.

    On behalf of Dell, I¡¯d like to apologize to all affected customers. Above all else, your safety is important to us. We also understand that the work that you do on your notebook is invaluable to you, and we¡¯re committed to getting replacement batteries shipped out to you as quickly as we can.

    To determine if your laptop battery is part of this recall, you can go here. This website will be live shortly after midnight Central Time. This site is now live. You¡¯ll find answers to FAQs and new information as it is available here on Direct2Dell.

    The article come from http://batteryblog.info/dell-details-for-laptop-battery-recall/


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    Oct 6, 2009
    battery Maintenance with New opinion

    What are the laptop battery maintenance mode? What is the use of laptop battery maintenance of the taboo? Notebook battery maintenance of books in the end should be pulled out, pulled out if the power of how to do? Notebook battery maintenance of good access to the longest time? See below, it will know.

    Notebook battery life is longer, often dissatisfied with sufficient, or even show damage, if the dell laptop battery maintenance of peace have not done enough good, then more accelerated the aging batteries! It is necessary to observe in the use of some maintenance tips. Whether you are using a notebook lithium battery as A1185 or nickel-metal hydride batteries.

    As far as possible to the dell xps m1330 battery charge after the exhaustion of the basic (power less than 5%), which is to avoid the battery the best way memory effect. In fact, the lithium-ion battery has some memory effect, Ni-MH battery is more than just much smaller. However important to note that charge when the time is too long to avoid the general control within 12 hours. Notebook battery as Apple powerbook g4 battery maintenance free with the use with the filling!

    Notebook battery life is not determined by the length of time, but by the number of charge and discharge decisions. This is the importance of maintenance of notebook battery - Li-ion notebook battery (apple powerbook g4 battery) life by the number of charge-discharge decision! If you are using a laptop when the battery has been installed on the notebook instead of taking down, even if the machine shut down and removed AC power, the battery would not like to imagine that as you have maintained a state of full power.

    Used because the inspiron e1705 battery is a Into a control circuit, even when the computer is shut down power consumption. After I connected to AC power, when battery power is not full, so it will start charging. In this way, when the power turned on or off, your laptop battery will repeatedly charge and discharge and shorten VGP-BPS5 battery life, this is the laptop battery maintenance bogey.

    To this end, in the use of external AC power supply when the dell xps m1330 battery pulled out the best. Moreover, the laptop battery if exposed to heat their state will have an impact on life expectancy. Laptop battery for long-term maintenance of non-use, please red discharge at least a month to ensure that the activity of the battery. At the same time, when the battery in the custody of a problem we must pay attention to sony vgp-bps2 PA3399U-1BRS battery.

    That is, the vast majority of dell laptop battery currently used in lithium-ion batteries do not use if the long period of time, then, often prone to the phenomenon of excessive discharge, may no longer be able to charge a notebook battery. This is the laptop battery maintenance of a free! In order to prevent excessive battery discharge, in a state of semi-rechargeable battery stored in a cool place, and then once every six months, and then half of its electricity to the state of charge. Notebook battery maintenance free inspiron e1705 battery storage for too long, as well as the battery over-discharge damage to the battery!

    In addition, the impact of notebook battery life of factors including the use of the environment temperature (30 ¡æ suggested that the use of the following), storage latitude d830 battery and battery temperature suffered shock size. In the use of laptop batteries after a certain period of time will be aging (no matter how maintenance can not be avoided!), As demonstrated by the internal resistance become larger, in charge when the voltage rise faster, so it is easy to charge control circuit has been found to have full capacity is of course also declined.

    Laptop battery will be calibrated to deal with aging is an effective way to the laptop battery(gd761, kd476 ), which is many years laptop battery maintenance of a more commonly used! However, only a small number of notebook batteries have a dedicated calibration software. If your notebook does not discharge the exclusive use of the software, then the battery can be carried out in accordance with the maintenance of the following steps:

    Disable the screen saver;

  • In the Windows Power Management power scheme will be set to ¡°always open¡±;
  • General tab in the warning ¡°insufficient power warning¡± is set to 10%, the operation is set to ¡°no operation¡±;
  • will be ¡°a serious power shortage alert,¡± set to 3%, operating as a ¡°wait¡±;
  • the screen brightness to the maximum;
  • confirm all the windows closed, and the preservation of all data prior to the work;
  • confirm GD761 battery after more than 80%, unplug the power and all external equipment.
  • Discharge after the end of the notebook will automatically shut down after the power plug so that the notebook charge, this process can be repeated 2 to 3 times the battery to enable continuous low current discharge, which discharge the state in our day-to-day use it is impossible achieved, the effect of discharge and those dedicated basically the same software.


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