Plug and socket is the most widely used household products, but also an important component of household appliances, the recent plug-and-socket quality of the relevant foreign news reports continue to increase, to the relevant business has brought economic and reputation losses, need attention.
December 26, 2014, the EU member states of Hungary on a number of China's portable lights issued by the unqualified notification, because the lamp plug socket shape poor match, the use of consumers may come into contact with the plug part of the live Risk of electric shock. In fact, so the wrong design of the structure led to the risk of electric shock has become China's export plugs and sockets of the primary quality problems. According to statistics, in 2014 China's Europe and the United States failed to comply with the plug socket products to 76, of which the design problems caused by electric shock hazard accounted for 78.7%.
Product flame retardant failure is another urgent need to pay attention to the quality of hidden dangers. 2014 year due to fire hazards were Europe and the United States reported 14 batches, mainly due to the use of plastic shell material flame retardant performance or heat can not be transmitted, prolonged use of products overheating or even fire. In addition, the lack of heat resistance may also lead to the use of the plug socket heat deformation caused by the original non-contact of the live parts become easy to contact with the risk of electric shock. The domestic market due to the quality of the plug socket fire and other types of accidents are frequently seen in newspapers.
Compliance validation is the root cause
Household appliances products have been highly concerned about the sensitive goods at home and abroad, its quality and safety certification requirements and market sampling requirements have been higher. The International Electrotechnical Commission's mandatory standard iec60884 and the reference to the standard of China's mandatory national standards gb2099 for household use and other types of special-purpose plugs and sockets have strict safety requirements, from the product's electrical identification to heat resistance, from Mechanical strength to anti-shock protection measures and internal insulation parameters and other items are very detailed.
In the event of an electric shock protection, the iec60884 and gb2099 standards expressly require that the live parts should not be easily accessible when the live parts of the plug are partially or fully inserted into the receptacle. This requires the production enterprises in the product design and testing to take full account of the possible use of consumers, the product safety audit. In August 2014, Germany had informed a number of our domestic plug converter, because consumers can only one of the pins inserted into the socket converter and the other pin exposed, if the converter connected to the power at this time, the exposed pin may Leading to the risk of electric shock. Highly unqualified reports indicate that there is a serious shortage of compliance verification for some of the export enterprises in China. And plug the socket due to quality problems caused by the return and recall, not only bring reputation damage and economic losses, once the result of personal injury to consumers, the consequences is unthinkable.
Eliminate the hidden dangers of strict standards
Inspection and quarantine experts to remind the export enterprises, electrical product quality directly related to the safety of consumers, in the event of an accident or ordered to bring the enterprise will bring irreparable damage. Enterprises should train a special quality checks staff, in strict accordance with international standards and related national standards for product structure design and electrical safety performance checks to eliminate security risks. Structural or functional changes in the new products, exports must be commissioned by third parties and other professional testing organizations to conduct a comprehensive type of test test, for access to Europe and the United States and other developed countries should apply for the ce certification and ul certification to improve the quality assurance capabilities and Consumer confidence.
And for plugs and sockets of imported electrical appliances and other products, the vast number of consumers should also improve the awareness of security, buy quality inspection departments through the inspection of qualified products to avoid the voltage does not match or plug socket specifications and China does not match the security risks, if necessary Can be tested to the relevant testing organizations.
