Feb 14
2010

China’s lithium-ion battery standard

China’s current Laptop battery safety standards for lithium-ion batteries contain safety requirements or product specifications are as follows:

1.GB/T18287-2000 “cell phone use lithium-ion battery general norms”; 2.GB/T19521.11-2005 “Li-ion battery pack hazardous properties of dangerous goods inspection and safety standards” 3.GB/Z18333.1-2001 “Electric road vehicles lithium-ion batteries “; 4.YD1268.1-2003″ mobile phones and lithium battery safety requirements and test methods “; 5.SJ/T11169-1998″ Lithium Battery Standard “(eqvUL1642: 1995); 6. QB/T2502-2000 “general standards for lithium ion nikon d40X vertical-grip“; 7.QC/T743-2006 “electric vehicles using lithium-ion batteries”; 8.SN/T1414.3-2004 “import and export of battery safety test methods Part 3: Lithium ion batteries. ”

The above criteria, the first three as the national standard, the former two for a recommended national standard, but GB/T19521.11 Chapter 4 and Chapter 5 for the mandatory elements, the third criterion for the guidance of technical documents; after 5 respectively, post and telecommunications, electronics, light industry, automobile, commodity inspection industry nikon d60 vertical-grip standards, post and telecommunications industry standards YD1268.1 mandatory standard, the other four are recommended standards.

Electronics industry standard SJ/T11169 the technical content of the 1995 edition with the UL1642 standard equivalent.

Currently awaiting approval issued safety standards for lithium-ion nikon d80 vertical-grip contain safety requirements or product specifications are:

1.GB / T ××××- 200 × / IEC62133: 2002 “containing alkaline or other non-acid batteries and battery electrolytes – Portable sealed batteries and battery safety requirements”; 2.GB/T18287-200 × “mobile phone use lithium-ion fujitsu lifebook c2320 battery and battery universal norms”; 3.SJ / T × × × -200 × “mobile power systems for portable computers General Specification.”

The first two national standard, the third for the electronics industry standard, all three are recommended standards. The first is applicable to all types of alkaline batteries for portable applications, including lithium-ion battery; the second revised version of standards GB/T18287-2000 standards for lithium-ion fujitsu lifebook c2330 battery for mobile phones; third standard applies notebook computer lithium-ion batteries.

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Feb 14
2010

Safety standards in three areas

Recently, the Laptop battery Ministry of Information Industry set up the Electronic Product Safety Standards Working Group to prepare to carry out the work safety standards for lithium-ion batteries, and put forward to develop safety standards for lithium-ion batteries for portable work objectives, combined with the status quo of China’s standards for lithium-ion batteries, the proposed safety standards for the future carry out the work of the following several measures in order to obtain greater effectiveness.

1. To national standards in the form of a unified nation-wide safety standards for lithium-ion canon eos 500d vertical-grip.

Lithium-ion battery as a ubiquitous product, unified its safety standards are not only fully protect the interests of consumers needs, but also reduce the cost of doing business, standardize the industry development requirements. Taking into account the lithium-ion battery production, marketing and other areas across the national economy, a unified security standard form should no doubt be the highest level of national standards. In order to maintain safety standards and that the unity should take the following measures: on the existing state and industry standards, they should be integrated canon eos 1000d vertical-grip technical content to include or an alternative manner; in the future with the development of lithium-ion battery, through the standard way of amendments to update their safety requirements will no longer be the development of other safety standards.

2. According to the product of lithium-ion battery standard, the standard level of adherence to the “moderate” principle.

Fur products and standards are inter-relationship between the different nature of the product accordingly, requires different standards, the current lithium-ion battery roughly divided into two major fujitsu lifebook c2240 battery energy-and power-type products, two products in materials, design structure, etc. There is a certain the differences in the same security context, as well as its standard test method requirements are likely to be different.

Commonly referred to as belonging to the former category of portable battery products, including mobile phones, laptop computers, digital cameras and video cameras use lithium-ion batteries, electric tools, electric bicycles and electric vehicles using lithium-ion battery products grouped into the latter category, the proposed difference to develop fujitsu p250 battery safety standards for lithium-ion batteries for portable and power-based lithium-ion battery safety standards.

Standards should be appropriate means to seek and establish product safety and performance of the best combination, if it is not simply focus on safety, of course, the more stringent requirements as possible, but the overall technical level of the product restrictions, the better the security often means more poor electrical performance level, a typical example is the current charge GB/T18287-2000 the 3C to 10V over-voltage charging requirements, unless the significant expense of capacity or life, or the current lithium-ion batteries used in mobile phones simply can not achieve this has been does not prove the necessary safety requirements. From the application point of view, it is obviously not worth the candle, and do not meet the standard within a certain range to create a basic principle of the best products.

3. To enact a specific safety standards for lithium-ion fujitsu fpcbp65 , fujitsu fpcbp65ap batteries, the standard covering the product design and manufacturing processes, and establish the appropriate oversight authentication mechanisms.

Lithium-ion battery safety standards and product specifications should be separated from the development, its benefits are standard in a more flexible way to fit the needs of product development. In the widely used under the facilitation of the electrical properties of lithium-ion battery upgrade is almost with each passing day, compared to its security requirements is relatively fixed, respectively, standard-setting will enable the two to move in the form of sub-objects to meet the changing needs of their own, so as to avoid in the past all of the requirements of product standards of the general canonical form of the shortcomings of time-consuming fujitsu lifebook c2000 battery amendments.

The vast majority of the safety of lithium-ion battery is difficult to simulate from the current safety standards, the internal short circuit caused by defects, only the lithium-ion fujitsu lifebook c2310 battery design and manufacturing process quality control system fully integrated into the product of internal short circuit can only effectively eliminate the risk, and it in the industrial sector in a large number of security incidents lithium-ion batteries are summarized and reached consensus. Therefore, improving the structure of existing safety standards, will expand its content to the upstream product design and production processes are fully and effectively to protect the safety of lithium-ion batteries needed. This, in turn has brought the standard implementation of operational problems, the proposed new forms of standards based on lithium-ion batteries to carry out mandatory safety certification, in addition to testing the final product, the authentication methods should also include product design and process review, supervision of the manufacturing process content and reference to quality system certification practices, establish a regular review and random sampling of the system, so will ensure that the maximum nikon d40 vertical-grip could be carried through standard content and implementation.

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Feb 14
2010

Lithium-ion Laptop battery safety

Standards should be appropriate means to seek and establish product safety and performance of the best combination, if it is not simply focus on safety, of course, the more stringent requirements as possible, but the overall technical level of the product restrictions, the better the security often means more poor electrical performance levels canon eos 350d vertical-grip.

Lithium-ion battery performance level is the most advanced and fastest growing commercial chemical power, and become mobile phones, laptop computers, digital cameras and other high-end portable consumer electronics products matching the power of choice. But its structure and principles of weakness, frequent occurrence in recent years, lithium-ion battery explosion wounding or recall of products due to security risks and other incidents, lithium-ion canon eos 400d vertical-grip safety has become a hot topic in national life, with the attendant safety standards for lithium-ion battery and related work has also become the focus of attention of various parties.

China Li-ion batteries to be coordination between the various standards

Current domestic and international basic safety standards for lithium-ion batteries are in line with detection-based standard, that standard provides short-circuit, over canon eos 450d vertical-grip charge, over discharge, vibration, shock, extrusion, impact (drop), hot-box, low atmospheric pressure, temperature cycling and other electrical , mechanical and environmental aspects of the pilot project, to simulate the battery in normal use and foreseeable misuse of the time of application, to ensure that products in these cases, security. This standard form has the advantage of clear criteria, operability is good, just for the finished battery to carry out laboratory testing to determine whether you can meet the standards, the disadvantage is that can not be fully effective in protecting the product quality and reliability, because the security of a product performance is an integral aspect of product design and manufacturing processes formed and established, the current standard of evaluation subjects with this biased, in addition to safety tests are destructive tests fujitsu lifebook c2210 battery, can only be conducted using samples taken, this method itself There are also a certain degree of risk probability.

Contrast to the standard can be seen at home and abroad, China’s safety standards for lithium-ion batteries lack of overall planning, basic fragmented. On the one hand between the state and industry standards of 2, as well as a lack of coordination between various industry standards, there is a certain cross-standard objects fujitsu lifebook c2220 battery, repeating the other hand, there is no uniform standard of guiding ideology, both simple safety standards, including the electrical properties have , environmental performance and safety performance applicable to all the demands of the general norms such as the nature of standards. In contrast, the same organization within the system of foreign ideas and standards in the work of inter-relations are more unified, coordinated, such as the IEC for the safety of their products a separate standard-setting, other criteria such as product specification electrical properties of the total, and other requirements, safety requirements direct reference to safety standards; IEEE are developed for different purposes, including security requirements, respectively, including general specifications of products fujitsu lifebook c2230 battery.

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Feb 4
2010

2010 laptop and battery news

Notebook Dell Inspiron 1521 Battery 7 major trend in 2010, the battery favored small solid-state drives.

August 31, according to foreign media reports, the United States “Information Week” recently in 2008 the global notebook PC market trends were predicted. The article lists a total of seven major trends, including a solid-state hard drives are increasingly favored and battery and small size.

As the saying goes, runs almost every morning. To use this proverb to describe the notebook PC market next year, is very apt. If not, in emergencies, then the consumer best to wait for next year to buy. Otherwise, they may lose the opportunity to enjoy some of the new technology Dell Inspiron 1525 Battery. The following 2008 the global notebook market in seven major trends:

A large-screen notebook screen more and more

Two wide-screen notebook screen to continue to develop in the direction

3 small-screen notebook screens getting smaller and smaller

4 continued popularity of wireless-enabled laptop

5 laptop battery ever-smaller

6 began to use more and more solid-state hard drive laptop

7 more and more laptops to give up Windows System

“Battery Dell Inspiron 1526 Battery Door” Let Sony’s loss of 400 million U.S. dollars

Just this year, braving the flames and smoke so that the Sony laptop brand experience an unprecedented crisis, because the cause of the problem has been attributed to a Sony notebook computer batteries provided by the.

In the U.S., in Europe, in Japan, frequent fire notebooks and office at the airport, followed by several well-known computer company a huge recall, Dell, Apple, Lenovo … … the hundreds of one million of these batteries recall operation, Sony and PC makers should be shared responsibility Laptop battery, and it therefore suffered a loss of 400 million U.S. dollars.

Sony does not deny the area suffered a defeat in the battery, “there is problem with the battery, it is difficult, but also the challenges that we regard it as the reason, to fail to learn.” Bamboo basket Gao Jing-hsiung. Now, Sony’s executives are more concerned is how to defuse the crisis, “we would be accused will pay the cost sony VGP-BPS5, but we have to cross the mountains, and now has come to climb before the critical moment.”

However, crossing the “Battery Door” event of the peaks is not easy, Sony executives in Tokyo, has used a Japanese-style rose and bowed to the public, apologized to the public image is one thing, cold financial numbers is quite another matter Sony recently released in Japan, reported a second quarter of the whole group, total profits have plummeted by 94%. Yesterday, Stringer did not directly answer and the “Battery Door”-related issues, he just said that sony VGP-BPS5A’s profit margin target will be completed, and the breakthrough point will switch to the consumer electronics and video entertainment.

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Feb 4
2010

Sony Laptop Battery Problems

Sony laptop fujitsu fpcbp155 battery problems led the half-year operating profit plunged

Japan’s Sony Corporation 26, Xinhua reported, as the world’s major PC makers to recall Sony manufactured notebook computer lithium batteries, 2006, the first half of fiscal year (April to September of this year), the company’s operating profit plunged 90.9 year on year %, to 62.2 billion yen (one U.S. dollars approximately ¥ 119).

Showed a profit, Sony Group’s production of LCD TVs and digital cameras sales strong. Affected by the first half of this fiscal year, Sony’s sales revenue grew by about 10%, or about 3.6 trillion yen.

Because Sony manufactured notebook computers fujitsu fpcbp155ap overheat and catch fire risks on a global scale is the total number of recalled batteries are expected to reach 9.6 million. This incident led Sony to recall bear the more than 500 billion yen in costs.

Sony also lowered the company’s 2006 fiscal year (ending March 2007) had a profit forecast. Company’s net profit to fall to ¥ 80,000,000,000, compared with the previous fiscal year fell 35%; operating profit of 500 billion yen, compared with the previous fiscal year decreased by 78%.

Earlier at a press conference, Sony’s vice president Yutaka Nakagawa for the first time on the notebook computer batteries and related services to the customers all public apology.

“Battery Door” storm undetermined Sony will again be the United States judicial investigation

Also caught “the battery door” of the Sony company has heard bad news fujitsu S26391-F6120-L470, Sony said Tuesday, because of SRAM (static random access memory) market alleged existence of monopolistic behavior, its U.S. subsidiary is receiving the U.S. Department of Justice investigation.

Sony said in a statement, the U.S. Justice Department asked the company to the Ministry of Justice is currently providing detailed data on Sony’s SRAM business. Sony said it would fully cooperate with the U.S. Department of Justice investigation, but declined to disclose details of the investigation.

SRAM chips provide high-speed data transfer is a kind of memory chips, are widely used in networking, telecommunications and computer and other electronic devices with fujitsu SMP-EFS-SS-22E-06. This year in October, the U.S. Justice Department has announced SRAM suppliers to investigate anti-competitive behavior. The agency with the Cypress, Mitsubishi Electric and Samsung made contact.

Recently, Sony has been due to laptop battery recalls, new product and other problems delayed the release of wrangling, the investigation of the SRAM, the company will undoubtedly face more trouble. Earlier South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and other companies for Fujitus Battery, but had conspired to have been charged the price of DRAM and eventually fined more than 731 million U.S. dollars.

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Nov 12
2009

Intel Core Duo Thinkpad T60

The biggest feature of the Thinkpad T60 is the fact that it is one of Lenovos first Centrino Duo capable notebooks.? The sample we got was in fact a Centrino Duo system as it was equipped with an Intel 945GM chipset, 3945ABG wireless solution and an Intel Core Duo T2600 (2.16GHz) processor, and power ful IBM ThinkPad T60 Battery .? IBM does offer other versions of the T60 that use the Core Duo processor but dont meet the requirements to be called a Centrino Duo as well.?

Specs of the ThinkPad T60 Being Reviewed:

  • Model #: 2623-D3U
  • Processor: Intel T2500 2.0GHz Core Duo
  • Motherboard Chipset: Intel Calistoga i945GM/PM
  • Hard Drive: 100GB 5400RPM SATA (Hitachi Travelstar HTS541010G9SA00)
  • Memory/RAM: 1GB (1,024MB) (configurable up to 4GB)
  • Screen: 15.0″ 1400 x 1050 SXGA+ (LG Philips LP150E05 – A2)
  • Graphics: ATI X1400 128MB
  • Optical Drive: Multi-Burner DVD recordable
  • Battery: 9-cell (extended life, protrudes from back of notebook)
  • Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11 a/b/g), Bluetooth 2.0, InfraRed
  • User Input: Touchpad, Pointing Stick, UltraNav buttons, Fingerpring Scanner
  • Warranty: 3-years parts and labor, 1-year thinkpad t60 battery
  • Dimensions:
    14.1″ screen config: 12.2″ x 10.0″ x 1.0-1.2″ (width x depth x thickness)
    15″ screen config: 13″ x 10.6″ x 1.2-1.4″ (width x depth x thickness)
  • Weight: 6.4lbs (14″ T60 is about 5.2 lbs with a 6-cell battery and optical drive)
  • Ports:
    • 3 USB 2.0 ports
    • dock/port replicator
    • Display-out
    • AC adapter port
    • RJ-11 (Modem)
    • RJ-45 (Ethernet LAN)
    • Audio line out for headphone/speakers
    • Microphone
  • Slots:
    • 1 Type II PC card slot
    • 1 ExpressCard 54 slot
  • Buttons:
    • Power on/off
    • Volume up/down/mute (3 buttons)
    • Wireless on/off
    • ThinkVantage shortcut button (shortcut to system support, security and diagnostics suite)
    • Battery lock and release
  • Price: $2,799 (as of 2/13/2006 at Lenovo.com)

Basically the same as its predecessor T-series notebooks did. The T60 body is a rugged plastic that does not flex. The magnesium reinforced lid won’t flex and provides amazing protection for the screen to power your Dell KD476 Dell U4873 . The keyboard does not flex — at all. The thick metal hinges that attach the screen are very rigid and ensure the screen does not wobble. The keyboard is spill proof and has two drain holes to make sure if you do happen to spill your morning Starbucks coffee, the liquid is carried away from sensitive components and out through the bottom of the notebook. The hard drive is shock mounted and the entire chassis is a newly designed magnesium “roll cage” (it offers 30% more protection that past T-series chassis), and even if your T60 is dropped and broken the Active Protection System (APS) will stop hard drive activity to prevent data loss for Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery . The double screen latch system locks securely to make sure the screen stays down when being carried around. In other words, there’s no shortcuts being used in build quality from past ThinkPad notebooks since the Lenovo takeover of IBM — only enhancements.

The inside meant that this computer had an Intel chip inside meaning better performance than those other people, way back in 1993, not that Intel focused on the insides of the computer as Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery. Watch it and this will actually be bad for them. All those people won’t even recognize the intel they knew with the new logo.

I admit it, I have no use for the Weener (Windows) keys. Its a pointless feature to have if you use other OSs or migrating AWAY from Windows. Its like Nvidia’s chipset firewall solution…Another pointless feature for “Windows Only” users. (Which causes more trouble than its really worth).

With Lenovo adopting all these “everyone else has it” features, its not the same ThinkPad anymore. They don’t stand out technologically, like they used to.

Granted, the fingerprint scanner and keyboard light is interesting, but that’s all there is. My old R50 ThinkPad has a keyboard light as well. So I guess the only thing is the fingerprint scanner.

Like the ThinkPad Z61m, the ThinkPad T60 features a 15.4-inch wide-screen display with a 1,680×1,050 native resolution that affords a large amount of screen real estate (nearly 26 columns and 51 rows on the default Excel spreadsheet) but can make text appear small. Users who fall behind on their Vitamin A supplements can configure the T60 with a 1,280×800 resolution display. As with all ThinkPads, a reading light tucked into the bezel above the screen lets you illuminate the keyboard when working in dark environments. The T60 lacks the built-in Webcam found on the Z61m’s display bezel, but not like the Dell Inspiron E1705 Battery.

As for ThinkVantage, that is useful…To some extent.

I tried to “clean restore” WinXP from the hidden partition (as Windows requires a clean installation after 2 or more years of use), and I get a crapload of errors. The Trackpoint or Touchpad seem to be no longer detected for Dell Latitude D510 Battery Dell Latitude D610 Battery , and so on. And other error messages. I couldn’t get past finishing the install. So I unhid that WinXP Partition, and formatted the sucker clean, gained 8GB back of HDD space. Which is enough for a quadriple boot…Win2k, Slackware, FreeBSD and Solaris. (And they all work fine with the Trackpoint/Touchpad).

In all Starting price is higher than comparable systems’; lacks a number of nonessential but fairly standard ports and connections. Sturdy, well-designed case; strong security features; full range of networking connections, including WWAN and Bluetooth; swappable internal bay; solid warranty terms and well-reputed support.

The article from : Notebook Review Cnet

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