Dell and Apple are teaming up to develop design and safety standards for lithium-ion batteries, following their recall of nearly six million Sony-made batteries this month.
The batteries had been reported as overheating and in some cases catching fire.
The two companies belong to an electronic components standard-setting group called IPC, which plans to discuss these matters on 13 September.
"Without a doubt, standardisation can and will address the issue of operation and safety called into question by the use of lithium-ion batteries. While the committee had identified lithium-ion batteries as the next product for standardisation, we are going to accelerate our activities now," said John Grosso, chairman of the IPC OEM Critical Components Committee and director of supplier engineering and quality, sub-tier and critical components at Dell.
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Ronald J Riley said: This is funny two members of the Coalition for Patent Fairness aka Coalition for Patent Piracy working on standards to mitigate substandard engineering in how the computer manages batteriesRonald J Riley President Professional Inventors Alliance wwwPIAUSAorg RJRatPIAUSAorg Change at to RJR Direct 202 318-1595
PJ said: This fits perfectly with point 4 in the sidebar of this article about what Dell should have done to minimize PR damagewwwlevickcomresourcestopicAn industry-wide public safety leadership role generalizes the problem beyond your own company