Date: 28 March 2000
Primary lithium batteries - Safety tests and requirements
The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
has recently added a new publication to its bestselling series of
standards on primary batteries. Dealing with primary lithium batteries,
IEC 60086-4 specifies tests and requirements for primary lithium
batteries to ensure their safe operation under intended use and
foreseeable misuse.
Kazuo Tsubaki (Matsushita Battery Industrial Co.,
Ltd.) who is Secretary of IEC
Technical Committee 35 (Primary cells and batteries) explains
that, in the second edition of the standard, "the safety tests
and requirements have been modified and refined to include safety
aspects for lithium batteries with high power output. The previous
edition focused on lithium batteries for consumer applications,
which were smaller in size and had lower power output." Tsubaki
adds that "the content has been modified and enhanced to harmonize,
where possible, with other international documents on the subject.
It is the most comprehensive document of its kind and will provide
among others, requirements for safety, sampling, testing and requirements,
information for safety, instructions for use, and marking."
The people most likely to benefit from this revised
edition should be the battery manufacturers and designers, the equipment
manufacturers and designers, not forgetting the battery users themselves.
Regulatory agencies, especially those involved with transportation
issues, should also be counted among the main users of this standard.
IEC
60086-4 (2000-03) Ed. 2.0
Primary batteries - Part 4: Safety of lithium batteries
ISBN 2-8318-5134-3 – TC 35 – 33 pp.
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