Interpretation: LED lighting industry standards in Japan, some of the problems

The Japanese government and the industry are actively promoting the popularity of LED lighting. At present, Japan's LED lighting is not suitable for the use of PSE objects, mainly to identify the safety of independent enterprise certification. Japan's economic and industrial province is considering the application of LED lighting into the PSE object.

In the LED lighting products, LED light bulb type (LED lamp) in Japan's domestic shipments as of the year 2008 only a small number, but the statistics of Japan will result to the lighting industry has been growing rapidly in 2009 to about 4 million. The supply of LED lighting equipment reached 1 million 270 thousand units in December 2009, and has been recognized as an alternative to incandescent bulbs in general consumers.

Japan's various industries and enterprises to use television advertising and other means, LED lighting products in the environmental protection and energy saving than the advantages of the existing lighting has launched a positive publicity. The Japanese government also began to implement the use of environmentally friendly LED lighting integral half price purchase "green environmental protection appliances integration promote the popularity of business from April 2010, for ordinary consumers, LED lighting products with LED bulbs has become a part of life 1).

Note 1) in addition to the promotion of the popularization of ordinary consumer business, the Japanese government has also implemented a "low carbon based industry in China based on" measures. With the most advanced technology, the future is expected to grow lithium-ion rechargeable batteries and LED lighting and other environmental protection and energy saving industry to support, try to create green jobs.

Electrical Products Safety Act (PSE) not applicable

However, the more LED lighting products into people's lives, the more prominent a problem. This is the electrical products safety law does not apply to LED lighting. In addition, in the context of a new set of companies involved in the field of LED lighting endless, but also did not have the knowledge of electrical products safety law on the direct sale of LED lighting products. These enterprises should understand, even if not become the object of LED lighting electrical products safety law, when the consumer products a major accident in use process, the enterprise will by the consumer products safety law and product liability law in Japan (PL) investigation.

LED is currently being widely popularized, and gradually into the ordinary family life, as well as public institutions, factories and convenience stores, such as the introduction of fluorescent type LED is not applicable to electrical equipment safety law. Therefore, LED bulbs and fluorescent lamp type LED and other products in the use of safety is not the law, but by the sale of products to ensure their own businesses. The results of ordinary families and enterprises to use the existing lighting products are printed on the electrical equipment safety law said to the requirements of "PSE mark", which is the sales, home appliance stores can be seen in the LED light bulb is not printed with the PSE logo.

As the safety is confirmed, the LED bulb in the electrical safety and Environmental Research Institute has been certified to have S-JET certification mark.

To replace the S logo security certification

Electrical safety law originally refers to the safety of electrical products to ensure that the definition of the law. The purpose of the law is: control at the same time on the electrical products manufacturing and sales, and to carry out the relevant activities to promote independent electrical safety activities of private enterprises, so as to prevent the danger and damage to electrical appliances.

However, due to the safety of electrical products law does not apply to LED lighting products, so the current problem is not without, but can not bring PSE logo. So, in Matsushita, Toshiba lighting technology and SHARP and other large enterprises sales of LED lighting, is printed by Japan Electrical Safety Environmental Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as JET) certification marks S safety certification system of the third party of the "folk" (Figure 1).

However, the S logo certification has not been adopted as a law. JET website, S logo certification has the following characteristics:

1 provide service to customers who want to obtain safety confirmation and certification in electrical products.

2 in addition to manufacturing companies, such as security, but also through the identification of S-JET certification mark, objective and impartial proof that the product meets the test standards.

3 mark S-JET logo products by the third party agencies to meet the test standards, so that consumer confidence has been enhanced.

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