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Lithium Battery Date Codes

This document describes Panasonic's lithium battery date code systems for determining the date of manufacture. It provides: 1. Cylindrical batteries use a 4-digit code representing year, month, week, and day. For example, "7612" means June 3, 1997. 2. Coin batteries use a 2-digit code for year and month. A 3-digit code is used for some smaller coin cells including day. 3. Exceptions are provided for user-replaceable batteries sold in North America and Europe, which use different date coding systems.

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Lithium Battery Date Codes

This document describes Panasonic's lithium battery date code systems for determining the date of manufacture. It provides: 1. Cylindrical batteries use a 4-digit code representing year, month, week, and day. For example, "7612" means June 3, 1997. 2. Coin batteries use a 2-digit code for year and month. A 3-digit code is used for some smaller coin cells including day. 3. Exceptions are provided for user-replaceable batteries sold in North America and Europe, which use different date coding systems.

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Lithium Battery Date Code System

Panasonic Batteries Products:


Panasonic Industrial Company Carbon Monofluoride (BR type)
A Division of Matsushita Electric Corporation of America Manganese Dioxide (CR type)
Two Panasonic Way Vanadium Pentoxide (VL type)
Secaucus, NJ 07094 Manganese Lithium (ML type)
Toll Free: 877-726-2228 Manganese Titanium (MT type)
Fax: 847-468-5750 Niobium Lithium (NBL type)
e-mail: oembatteries@panasonic.com Applicable models/sizes: All Lithium
Internet: www.panasonic.com/batteries Coin and Cylindrical batteries

Cylindrical type batteries: (Four Digit Date Code Used)*

1. The first digit shows the last digit of the year (7 = 1997).
2. The second digit shows the month code.
The following codes are used to indicate the month:
1 = Jan., 2 = Feb., 3 = March, 4 = April, 5 = May, 6 = June, 7 = July, 8 = Aug, 9 = Sept.
0 = Oct., Y = Nov., Z = Dec.
3. The third digit shows the week of the month.
1 = First week, 2 = Second week, 3 = Third week, 4 = Fourth week
4. The fourth digit shows the day of the week.
1 = Mon., 2 = Tues., 3 = Wed., 4 = Thur., 5 = Fri., 6 = Sat., 7 = Sun.
Example: A date code of “7612” indicates that the battery was assembled on Tuesday the first week of June 1997
(June 3, 1997).
*Exceptions:
• User replaceable batteries sold in the North America market (CR123A, CR-P2, 2CR5). The date codes on
these batteries reflect a 10 year expiration date (MM/YYYY). Thus, the date of manufacture can be
determined by subtracting 10 years. Example: 052011 date code = Expiration date of May, 2011
(production date code is May 2001)
• User replaceable batteries sold in the European market (CR123A, CR-P2, 2CR5). The date codes on these
batteries reflect a date of manufacture in the (YMW) format as described in steps 1, 2 & 3 above.

Coin type batteries: (Two Digit Date Code Used)**


1. The first digit shows the last digit of the year (7 = 1997).
2. The second digit shows the month code.
Example: A date code of “76” indicates that the battery was assembled in June, 1997.
The following codes are used to indicate the month:
1 = Jan., 2 = Feb., 3 = March, 4 = April, 5 = May, 6 = June, 7 = July, 8 = Aug, 9 = Sept.
0 = Oct., Y = Nov., Z = Dec.

** Exceptions: VL Series, ML series, MT Series and NBL series coin cells smaller than 9.5 mm in diameter use a 3
digit date code system. The first and second digits use the same format as the coin types listed above and the third
digit shows the day of the month as indicated in the table below.

Example of 3 digit system: A date code of “78R” indicates that the battery was assembled on August 25, 1998.
Part numbers using this system are: VL621, ML612S, ML614S, ML616S, ML621S, ML920S MT516, MT616,
MT621, MT920, NBL621.
st nd rd th th th th th th th th th th th th th
Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Code 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 A B C D E F
th th th th st nd rd th th th th th th th st
Day 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Code G H J K L M N P R S T U V W X

Lithium date codes Rev: 11/12/01

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