Then that Samsung will reveal the cause of the fiasco of the Note 7, the Commission of Safety of Consumer Products U.S. pointed out that the standards for the lithium-ion batteries in mobile phones have to be updated.
(Bloomberg).- The defects that made the phones Note 7 of Samsung Electronics Co. it burned last year, leaving it clear that the voluntary standards of the industry for the design and manufacture of rechargeable batteries are not suitable, concluded a regulator of safety for the american consumer.
The Commission of Consumer Product Safety (CPSC, for its acronym in English), who negotiated the retreat of 1.9 million phones and is conducting its own investigation, said Tuesday in a press release that the standards for the lithium-ion batteries in mobile phones have to be updated.
These standards were developed for the first time in 2006 and have not been reviewed since 2011. The agency and Samsung are working with the industry to "revitalize" the voluntary standard for lithium-ion batteries in smartphones, said the commission.
The industry needs to learn from this experience and to improve the safety of the consumer by implementing more safeguards during the design stages and manufacturing to ensure that the technologies that work with lithium-ion battery to deliver its benefits without the serious risks to the security," he said in the statement, the president of the CPSC, Elliot Kaye.
as of the CPSC has vast implications for the industry of mobile phones world, which sold 1,980 million devices in 2015, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.
it is Also about the more recent research that raises fears about the security in the cells based on lithium, each time more powerful, that have become almost ubiquitous in the lives of the people, to feed from smartphones to power tools. In recent years, there have been withdrawals of the so-called scooters hunter hoverboard, the aircraft 787 of Boeing Co. he stopped flying and he was banned from that airline passengers carrying batteries in bulk due to security fears.
The mobile phone industry follows the guidelines for design of batteries, developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE), a for-profit entity that works with the industry to develop consensus standards for electrical equipment.
The guidelines IEEE covering design, testing, and quality assurance, and have been designed to limit "the failure of batteries under multiple stress situations". The IEEE did not respond to contacts to get their feedback on your work in this area.
Although the statement of Kaye does not mention the IEEE, said that Samsung plans to share what he has learned from his research.
Need for modernization.
"consumers should never have to worry about a battery-powered device can put them at risk to themselves, their families or their property," said Kaye; he added: "that Is why we need to modernize and improve the safety standards for lithium-ion batteries in the consumer electronics and also be at the forefront of new sources of energy that will appear inevitably to replace these".
The CPSC came to an agreement with Samsung to withdraw close to a million devices Note 7 to the 15 of September, two weeks after the company suspended sales of the phones after dozens of reports that they are burning, or explode. After the replacement of the batteries gave rise to similar incidents, it expanded the recall of the product.
At 13 October, there had been 96 reports of batteries of Note 7 that they should conceive when they came to the united States, including 13 cases where people were found with burns, and 47 suffered damage to property, according to the CPSC.
The agency praised the efforts of Samsung and mobile operators to encourage customers to return the phones. Although most of the processes of removal from the u.s. market have a "low" response rate among consumers, with 97% of the phones Note 7 had been returned, indicated by the CPSC.
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