IEC 62552 Test Equipment Refrigerator Door Durability Test Door Open Angle 0-130°

Standard:

IEC 60335-2-24 ‘Household and similar electrical appliances – Safety – Part 2-24: Particular requirements for refrigerating appliances, ice-cream appliances and ice-makers’ clause 22.112; IEC 62552-2007 ‘Household refrigerating appliances – Characteristics and test methods’ clause 11.2, clause 11.3

Test sample:

Household refrigerating appliances. IEC Test Equipment

Application:

This equipment is used to testing the durability of doors, lids and drawers of refrigerator. Suitable for refrigerator repeated opening and closing test (open /close door endurance test); refrigerator drawer endurance test. It is a special equipment for refrigerator doors durability and drawer endurance test.

Standard description:

IEC 60335-2-24 clause 22.112

The doors and lids of compartments in appliances with a free space shall be capable of being opened from the inside.

Compliance is checked by the following test.

The empty appliance is disconnected from the supply, placed on a horizontal support and levelled in accordance with the instructions for installation, with castors and rollers, if any, oriented, adjusted or blocked so as to prevent the appliance from moving. Locks, if any, on doors or lids are left unlocked.

Doors and lids are closed for a period of 15 min.

A force is then applied to a point, equivalent to an accessible inside point, of each appropriate door or lid of the appliance, at the midpoint of the edge farthest from the hinge axis in the direction perpendicular to the plane of the lid or door.

The force shall be applied at a rate not exceeding 15 N/s and the lid or door shall open before the force exceeds 70 N.

Parameter: