So that all notebook battery manufacturers and notebook makers storm into the recall of lithium-ion batteries, allowing these companies in the new year into a tort crisis.
Yesterday, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. (3M Company) announced that it has submitted to the Court of the United States related to the indictment, charged with a number of laptop manufacturers of lithium batteries, as well as notebook manufacturers a violation of its lithium battery patent. The defendants, including Japan’s Sony, Panasonic, Lenovo China, including a number of well-known enterprises.
3M said the company has at the same time called on the United States International Trade Commission ban on imports of the allegedly infringing use of lithium and lithium batteries for laptop batteries. However, 3M did not disclose whether the company suspected that these companies as well as the amount of compensation payments. Armada E500 , Armada M700 , Business Notebook nc6000 , Business Notebook nc8000 , business notebook NX9000 , business notebook NX9005 , business notebook NX9010 , EVO N100
The key: battery materials infringement
The infringement case is the focus of an internal lithium battery cathode material. 3M said the material in the world there are about 700,000,000 U.S. dollars of the market. The company stressed that because of their invention in the use of such materials, making lithium battery life is not easy, as well as the extension of overheating.
Lithium batteries because of overheating problems exist, such as Sony laptop battery manufacturer in the last year, had a massive notebook battery recall. And Sony is to pay for the recall of 4.4 million, the company recalled a total of 9,600,000 notebook lithium batteries, becoming the largest consumer electronics in the history of a recall. PP2100 , PP2200 , Presario 1200 , Presario 1500 , Presario 1600 , Presario 1700 , Presario 1800 , Presario 2100
The plaintiff: The technology is not easy
“It took us 10 years to study the development of lithium battery technology.” 3M Company spokesman Alexander Downer said next Friedkin, “12 months ago, before we have the technology for commercial means.”
Friedkin stressed: “For us, accession to the technology products also promote the stage, we have this technology investment, plans to use the technology of the global lithium battery production.”
According to the 3M Company in 2005 with the publication of the patent in 2006, the company has been conducting technical salt used in lithium batteries, adding that the electrical conductivity of salt to improve the durability and safety of the battery, little overheated. Presario 2500 , Presario 2800 , Presario 700 , Presario 900 , Presario M2000 , Presario X6000 , Presario R3000 , Presario V2000 , Presario V4000 , Presario V5000
The defendant: It is not clear the matter
3M Company in the indictment made special mention of the Sony. The company said that Sony and its notebook lithium battery manufacturing subsidiary, Sony Electronics without a 3M company agreed to use the technology.
At the same time, U.S. manufacturers of lithium batteries CDW Corporation and Total Micro Technologies, 3M Company has also been accused of using the technology. The two companies produce lithium batteries are used in Lenovo Thinkpad notebooks; Dell for the manufacture of batteries Batteries Com also listed as defendants, but Dell does not appear on the list of defendants. In addition, Japan’s Hitachi and Matsushita own products used in the alleged infringement of lithium batteries, has also been involved as a defendant. 342661-001 , 346970-001 , 361742-001 , 367759-001 , 371785-001 , 371786-001 , 372772-001 , 398876-001
Yesterday, the reporter with the plaintiff 3M China’s public relations contact after that, China also is not clear the prosecution; and Lenovo, Panasonic China also told reporters that the Chinese side has not yet been informed about the case; Sony China The company said that the prosecution case had been heard, are due to contact with the headquarters, is not convenient to give any comments