Apple Blames Battery Maker for iPod Nano Fires - lithium ion battery manufacturers
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A supplier's battery crashed some models of its small iPod Nano digital music player, said Tuesday.
The company's written statement was in response to a report by the Japanese government that said two iPod Nanos were overheating in Tokyo, paper burning nearby, and straw weaving.
Apple says defects are first affected
In very rare cases, nannanos was sold between September 2005 and December 2006.
The company's statement added, "there are no reports of serious injuries or damage to property, and no accident reports of any other iPod Nano model.
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Yoshitsune Hiroyuki, an official with Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, said the Japanese government has been working with Apple to investigate three cases of overheating when a separate ipod is charged.
A defect of lithium
All three cases are suspected of being ion batteries.
Millions of lithium.
Sony's Ion laptop battery for Apple and Dell, Lenovo Inc.
On 2006 and 2007, they were recalled after finding that other PC manufacturers might overheat and ignite.
Apple did not immediately reply to the phone and asked about the name of the company that produced the iPod battery.
Yoshitsune declined to give the name of the supplier.
No one was injured in two Tokyo incidents disclosed on Tuesday.
Yoshitsune said the case involved an iPod Nano, model MA099, signed in a nearby newspaper on August, and the model burned on a traditional Japanese tatami mat on January was ma
Both music players, he said, are deformed by high temperatures and become unusable.
The latest issue is that the Japanese government is also releasing a similar report on the spark of the iPod Nano.
Apple's iPod player is very popular in Japan, and despite the many iPod competitors produced by Japanese manufacturers, it is still mouth-watering as a fashion product.