"The battery door" incident affected Japan Apple accident reconstruction

The Associated Press said in a report, the Japanese authorities have confirmed before the date of an apple notebook computer has the fire incident in Japan, the Apple Corp to investigate the problem of the SONY battery, and within a week to give a reply. The report quoted a statement from the Ministry of trade and industry of Japan, said in April there was an apple iBook G4 computer fire in Japan, resulting in a user was slightly burned. The incident has been confirmed by a Apple Corp spokesman.

After a few on the batteries overheating accident reports last week, Apple Corp of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled the use of iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 notebook computer in a total of 1 million 800 thousand rechargeable lithium ion battery.

The Associated Press reported that Japan's trade ministry asked apple branches in Japan before September 5th to report its findings and remedial measures, otherwise it will follow the Japanese consumer product safety act on the penalty of 300 thousand yen ($2570) punishment. Prior to this, DELL has been due to a similar accident in the global recall of 4 million 100 thousand laptop batteries, and its problem battery supplier is precisely SONY.