Overview of UL 4200A:2023:Summer timeThe button battery product standard UL 4200A:2023 specifies the design, manufacturing, testing, and labeling requirements for button batteries to ensure that these products provide safe and reliable performance under normal use and foreseeable misuse conditions. The scope of UL 4200A:2023 covers all consumer products containing button batteries with a diameter not exceeding 32mm, such as remote controls, electronic toys, small appliances, calculators, cameras, etc.
Products Exempt from UL 4200A:2023:Summer time
Products specifically using zinc-air batteries.
Toys that comply with ASTM F963 “Toy Safety Standard” (due to different accessibility requirements for their batteries).
Zinc-air batteries sold separately (special packaging requirements are not enforced until March 8, 2024).
Introduction to Testing Items of UL 4200A:2023:Summer time
The testing is divided into two main categories: abuse testing and installation integrity testing, covering physical impacts and misuse scenarios that products may encounter throughout their lifecycle.
1. Abuse Testing (for replaceable battery products)
a) Drop Test: Portable products are dropped 3 times, handheld products are dropped 10 times. Each drop is from a height of 1 meter onto a flat hard surface.
b) Impact Test: A 0.5kg steel ball impacts the battery compartment cover 3 times from a height of 0.4 meters, or a pendulum simulates a side impact.
c) Crush Test: A pressure of 330N is applied to the exposed surface (through a 100mm×250mm flat surface) for 10 seconds.
d) Tension and Torque Testing: Tension testing, torque testing
2. Installation Integrity Testing (for non-replaceable battery products): A force of 20N is applied for 10 seconds to pull the battery, ensuring it cannot separate from the product.
Cross-border E-commerce Platform Requirements: After testing according to UL 4200A:2023, products must also have GCC. So, what is GCC?General Certificate of Conformity (GCC)Summer timeThe U.S. Consumer Product Safety Act Section 14(a) (as codified in 16 CFR Part 1110) requires that certain general-use products (i.e., non-child products) manufactured domestically or imported into the U.S. must have a written General Certificate of Conformity (GCC) based on test results or a reasonable testing plan if these products are subject to consumer product safety rules, similar rules, or any other standards or regulations enforced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
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