3M Company and Lenovo
3M United States konica minolta battery and the withdrawal of the end of Lenovo’s lithium battery charges infringement dispute
3M Company announced yesterday that the withdrawal of Lenovo’s infringement allegations, thus ending the two giants of the dispute between the focus on lithium batteries.
Announcements, 3M Corporation from the U.S. International Trade Commission patent infringement investigation of lithium batteries to exclude object association. Before this, the company and the two battery suppliers Lenovo reached a settlement agreement. As part of the settlement agreement konica minolta np-400 battery, Lenovo Group, to ensure that the company sold in the United States all contain nickel, manganese, cobalt cathode materials of lithium batteries are authorized in accordance with 3M’s technology, production.
In mid-March of this year, 3M and its innovation assets in the United States Federal District Court in Minnesota and the United States International Trade Commission proceedings, the defendant companies, including Sony, Sony Electronics, Lenovo Group, Lenovo U.S. company, CDW Corporation, Batteries Co., Ltd. , Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Koki USA Co., Ltd., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., Panasonic North America, as well as TotalMicroTech-nologies konica minolta np-600 battery Corporation. 3M accused the companies imported or sold in lithium batteries or products containing lithium batteries used with the cathode material related technical violation of 3M’s patents.
Followed in May, 3M settled with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. patent dispute. In July, 3M also shake hands with the Sony Corporation, settled the lithium battery cathode material for patent disputes.
Dell laptop caught fire Zaixian “battery door”
Yesterday, the pieces, entitled “Dell laptop suddenly caught fire in use” photos by e-mail, forums, etc. on the Internet spread rapidly. For the matter, Dell said in a statement the company issued preliminary investigation revealed that the earlier part of Dell’s notebook konica minolta np-700 battery recall of defective batteries.
This reporter has learned these Dell laptop caught fire incident took place September 3 a particular multinational Shanghai Branch. Time of the incident, the notebook first sound of an explosion, and then began to smoke and burn with konica minolta np-900 battery. Matter, after circulating on the Internet, Dell China quickly issued an official statement, said the company had embarked on a survey, preliminary investigations revealed that the Dell notebook battery recall last year, the problem is batteries out.
Last year, in June, in Japan, the United States and some European countries have be exposed six Dell laptop caught fire from the case. Dell explains as follows: computer batteries manufactured by Sony, installed in a specific configuration of the computer, and when used in specific circumstances, the Dell Battery and dell 1691P core of the metal particles may be sparks. Subsequently, Dell announced the worldwide recall of 4.1 million defective batteries.