Sony has lend its name to a originate leaning of computer makers recalling laptop personal computer barrage fire made by one of its own subsidiaries .
The Tokyo - based caller said it will tender replacing for around 90,000 battery pack sell with models of its Vaio PCs in Japan and China . The battery camp have the example gens VGP - BPS2B and VGP - BPS3A. The former was used with PCs sold in China while the latter was used in Vaio T - serial laptop computer sold in Japan and in models sold overseas , Sony said in a statement .
Sony is planning to broaden the callback to battery camp trade with PCs in other countries but has yet to finalize those details , said Daichi Yamafuji , a spokesman for Sony in Tokyo .
The VGP - BPS2B is used with some example of Vaio AR , FE , FS and SZ - series laptops while the VGP - BPS3A is used with Vaio T - serial publication machines , according to information from Sony and a search of its internet internet site .
Earlier in the solar day theNihon Keizai Shimbunbusiness paper tell the Sony battery rally would strain around 300,000 barrage fire battalion by the meter it had been announce worldwide . Sony did not comment on the newspaper report .
With its announcement Tuesday Sony becomes the seventh company to recall or offer to exchange laptop computer microcomputer battery packs . All the batteries include cubicle made at Sony Energy Tech in Japan . The cells are thought to moderate metallic particles , which under sure circumstances could cause a short circuit lead in the stamp battery catching fire .
The recalls get in mid - August when Dell enounce 4.1 million batteries ship with its laptop check the cells . Within two weeks Apple recalled 1.8 million battery face pack . Those two recall remain the large of the nine announced by seven company over the last two calendar month .
In former August Sony said its cost for the recalls would be between ¥ 20 billion and ¥ 30 billion ( US$ 167 million and $ 251 million ) . Earlier Tuesday it sound out it is reckon revising its net income forecast for the year , in part because of the battery recall . Sony is due to announce its half - twelvemonth earnings next week .
