AC COOLING FAN - SANYO DENKI EUROPE - #7

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6 5. CE marking CE marking 2. CSA standards�@ (Canada) 3. EN standards�@ (EU members) The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) was set up in response to the advice of the Canadian government. In Canada, the law prohibits the use and sale of any product other than those approved under CSA in terms of safety. CSA has set up CSA standards as inspection procedures and other requirements to ensure product safety. Our products are certified as satisfying the CSA standard C22.2 No. 113. In the EU territory, the harmonization of industrial standards and safety standards of different countries is under way. The unified standards are called Harmonized Standards. Each of these standards is marked EN above the standard number. EN standards offer the grounds in design and manufacture when one exports a product to the EU territory. In order for a product to receive a safety marking, the product must be found to conform to TÜV, VDE, or other relevant standard. Our products are certified as satisfying all TÜV Rheinland EN60950 requirements. As of April 1, 2001, the Electrical Appliance and Material Control Law has been revised and reenacted as the Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Law. AC fans are classified as ‘Blowers’ under ‘Electric motor-operated appliances’. They are categorized as electrical products other than specific electrical appliances (with the exception of some models) and are required to be labeled to indicate PSE certification. To distribute their equipment in the EU territory, manufacturers are obligated to give a CE marking as proof that the equipment conforms to related EU directives. Manufacturers use EN standards as criteria of judgment as to whether the equipment satisfies the requirements of specific directives or, in the absence of applicable EN standards, they use IEC standards. Manufacturers then prepare a self-declaration to indicate that the equipment conforms to related directives and apply a CE marking. (Depending on the degree of risk of the equipment, some kinds of equipment are required to receive type tests conducted by certified authorities and, after a type test certificate is obtained, manu-facturers make a self-declaration.) Scope of application and compulsory timing of major EC directives Machine directives (89/392/EEC, 91/368/EEC, and 93/44/EEC) These directives apply to equipment that has a moving part that may injure humans. The directives generally apply to a wide range of machine tools and other industrial machines (became compulsory on January 1, 1995). EMC directives (89/326/EEC and 92/31/EEC) They apply to equipment which may be affected by electromagnetic interference (EMI) or has ele-ctromagnetic susceptibility (EMS) (became co-mpulsory on January 1, 1996). Low-voltage directive (73/23/EEC) This directive applies to equipment that is used in an AC range between 50 and 1,000V and in a DC range between 75 and 1,500V (became compulsory on January 1, 1997). JIS: Japanese Industrial Standards Japan's national standards related to mining and manufacturing industries IEC : International Electrotechnical Commission This is an international commission on electrical standardization. This commission promotes the unification and cooperation of international standards related to electric and electronics engineering and issues IEC standards in order eventually to allow different countries to conform to the international standards. DIN : Deutsches Indstitut fur Normung e.V. This is a German standards institute. The institute uses a wide-range set of standards covering many industrial sectors. The set of standards includes basic standards. VDE : Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker e.V. It is a German association of electric engineers. VDE establishes safety standards related to electrical engineering and issues them as DIN-VDE standards. 4. Electrical Appliance and Material Safety Law RoHS directive From Jan 2006, SANYO DENKI has produced in compliance with EU RoHS directive (*1) that restricts usage of Specific hazardous substances (Cadmium, Lead, Mercury, Chromium hexavalent, PBD, PBDE) for electronic products. All products on this catalog are compliant with EU RoHS directive. �i*1�jEU Directive 2002/95/EC Directive 2002/95/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 2003 on the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment