File photograph of an undamaged battery used in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet provided by NTSBBy using Alwyn Scott and Tim Kelly TOKYO/SEATTLE (Reuters) – Investigators in Japan are studying x-ray photography of a lithium-ion battery from when it left the factory, hoping these may shed some light on why it looked as if it would overheat on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet earlier this week. They will be on the lookout for that you can imagine anomalies within the battery, which is made with the aid of Jap agency GS Yuasa, and hope this might additionally help them resolve two identical battery incidents on separate 787 planes a 12 months ago. The battery damaged on a Japan Airways (JAL) Dreamliner this week could provide more clues to investigators if it has survived in higher situation than the ones scorched in incidents on a JAL 787 in Boston ultimate year and on an ANA Holdings 787 in Japan only a few days later. GS Yuasa scans the eight-cell batteries with an x-ray-like gadget ahead of they are shipped, and the photographs are checked for an inventory of attainable problems to make sure the batteries aren’t flawed, said John Goglia, a former National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member.