Lithium Ion Batteries Explode?

"A mobile exploded in his living room last year, causing up to $100,000 in costs. Ortega and his family had to live in a trailer for a few months while their house in California was fixed" as reported in the Chicago Tribune back in 2006. Without inquiry the impact that the fire had on this family is devastating but what is alarming about that fire is that through the fire and insurance investigation the cause was found to be due to a cell phone's lithium-ion array failure and subsequent spontaneous incineration. What? How is that doable?

If you have a PDA, MP3, MP4, Laptop, Cell Phone, Smartphone, DVD player, or other electronic device then more likely then not the array within your device is a high room smart array pack (the compound base being lithium ion). What is a high room smart array pack? A high room smart array pack is a complicated array system designed to power high tech consumer electronic harvest.

What differentiates smart batteries from standard batteries is the specialized hardware that provides calculated on demand current as well as predicted in rank.

This specialized hardware includes:

• the connector
• the fuse
• the charge and discharge FETs
• the cell pack
• the sense resistor (RSENSE)
• the fundamental and lesser safeguard ICs
• the fuel-gauge IC
• the thermistor
• the pc board
• the EEPROM

Each of these components working in concert allows electrical current to be produced, controlled, and transferred to your individual electronic device on demand. Your array in effect was purposely designed to be an energy dense power pack, which used within its by the book designed purpose you can feel comfortable that your array will not explode.

How can I say that you will "feel comfortable" because statistically your array will not explode or even become defective! The report about the fire at the Ortega's family house is one of 339 array-related overheating incidents tracked by the Consumer Product Safety Fee since 2003. 339 overheating cases sounds like a lot but when compared to the well over 100,000,000 array related devices that have been bought by consumer since 2003 it represents a very small percentage (.000003) of all array related devices on the market.

But when smart batteries do explode, bubble, or warp the cause is due to an domestic cell small that may cause the array to overheat and explode, posing a potential hazard to patrons.

To detach the essential cause of the small circuit a study of every aspect of the smart array development and customer use must be considered including:

• the specialized each of the hardware components
• the cell design
• the manufacturing processes
• array surgical course of action in farthest conditions
• intentional array abuse
• unpremeditated abuse through the use of the array in any device, product, and or in any conceivable manner other than what the array was particularly designed to be used for and in

So yes it is doable to have high room smart array pack explode and cause unexpected hurt but as we have seen it is very unlikely taking into tab the sheer amount of lithium ion based batteries on the market.

Author: Dan Hagopian
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