New regulation of Korea KC certification lithium battery will be enforced on September 6, 2019

In September 2018 and February 2019, the National Institute of technical standards of South Korea successively issued the notice on the revision of safety standards for electrical appliances, namely, the implementation of the so-called new KC certification standard kc62133:2018. The publication of this new standard once attracted wide attention and consultation from battery manufacturers at home and abroad.

However, there has been no executive opinion on the specific implementation of the new version of the standard between the certification bodies and the competent government departments in South Korea, and the certification authorities have not issued certificates with the new standard.

Recently, Korea's new battery standard has finally ushered in specific implementation instructions, and the new standard has also transited from kc62133:2018 to kc62133:2019. The relevant information is as follows:

The new standard is kc62133:2019. As the KC law of ESS for energy storage battery needs to be implemented urgently, the implementation of kc62133-2:2019 is postponed, and the CB certificate of 2017 version is still not accepted when applying for KC transfer.

Kc62133: 2019 standard will be enforced from September 6 this year.

2.1 except for lithium batteries for mobile phones, tablets and laptops, the requirements of kc62133:2019 are equivalent to those of kc62133:2015, and kc62133:2015 standard is completely corresponding to iec62133:2012 standard.

2.2 the requirements of lithium batteries for mobile phones, tablets and laptops are different from those of kc62133:2015. Compared with kc62133:2015, the new version of standard kc62133:2019 adds three test requirements:

2 test items [for vibration and mechanical shock of battery pack]

Refer to the sixth edition of UN38.3 (test report), which is equivalent to kc62133:2019;

1 test item [overcharge test for cell]

Refer to ul1642 (abnormal charging), which is equivalent to kc62133:2019.

2.3 if the factory (manufacturer) can provide battery UN38.3 test report and cell ul1642 certificate and test data (report), it can replace the three test results of kc62133:2019.

2.4 if the factory (manufacturer) can not provide the battery UN38.3 test report and the cell ul1642 certificate and test data (report), it can also send samples to Korea for three tests, the sample quantity is 6B + 5C.

2.5 for KC applications transferred by CB, their CB shall apply for Korea National deviation (KR)_ ND_ IEC62133C）。

2.6 the KC certificate of the old version of the standard does not need to be changed to the new version. Before the KC certification enables the kc62133-2:2019 standard, the old version of the standard will be automatically upgraded to the new version. However, for lithium batteries used in mobile phones, tablets and laptops, UN38.3 and ul1642 documents or supplementary tests should be submitted before they can be updated.

2.7 when applying for KC certification, it is necessary to provide declaration documents to state the use of batteries.

reminder

Once the application meets one of the following four conditions, it can be considered as meeting kc62133:2019:

1. CB includes the national deviation of South Korea;

2. Submit the sixth version of battery pack UN38.3 test report and cell ul1642 report;

3. Submit samples and send them to Korea for testing;

4. Submit the factory (manufacturer) test report (deviation item test).

From now on, customers who produce lithium batteries for mobile phones, tablets and laptops and need to apply for KC certification can meet the battery requirements of the new KC standard through one of the above four ways, while other portable lithium batteries still maintain the original standard requirements.

As the kc62133-2:2019 standard mentioned in the first point of this paper, although there is a draft, the implementation of this standard will be postponed accordingly as the South Korean government departments are actively promoting the laws and regulations of ESS for energy storage batteries. Once there is KC regulation information on the implementation of ESS for energy storage batteries, we will follow up and publish it in a timely manner.