1.1.1 This Code applies to the facilities, technology and inspection for manufacturing of the liquefied petroleum gas rice cookers or city gas rice cookers (hereinafter referred to as “rice cookers”) which come under the following (1) to (3) among the combustors in conformity to the Enforcement Regulation of the Safety Control and Business of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Act (hereinafter referred to as “Enforcement Regulation”), Table 3, No. 10 and Table 7, No.4-j:
(1) The total heat input rate is not over 5.6 kw (4,800 kcal/h).
(2) The heat input rate of one burner is not over 5.6 kw (4,800 kcal/h), and
(3) The working gas pressure is not over 3.3 kPa.
1.1.2 The combustors excluded from the gas appliances subject to license in conformity to the Enforcement Regulation, Table 7, No.5-b are as follows:
(1) Gas torches used for welding and cutting,
(2) Dryer combustors used in casting sand dryers, printing ink dryers, concrete dryers, etc.,
(3) Furnace combustors for heat treatment furnaces or heating furnaces used as metal heat treatment furnaces, glass and ceramic furnaces, atmosphere gas furnaces, etc.,
(4) Melting furnace combustors used in metal melting, glass melting, etc.,
(5) Combustors attached to gas canisters of which internal volume is less than 100 mL, and
(6) Other combustors acknowledged by the Minister of Trade, Industry & Energy to be free from any problem in safety control.<Revised on September 29, 2017>
1.General 1
1.1 Scope 1
1.2 Validity of Code 1
1.3 Reference Codes and Standards 2
1.3.1 Inspection standard for new technology products 2
1.3.2 Registration standard for manufacturing of foreign products <Newly established on June 26, 2012, Revised November 4, 2015> 2
1.4 Definitions 2
1.5 Application of Codes and Standards 3
2. Manufacturing Installation Standard 3
2.1 Manufacturing Facilities 3
2.2 Inspection Facilities 4
3. Manufacturing Technology Standard 5
3.1 Materials 5
3.3 Devices 11
3.3.1 Power failure safety device 11
3.3.2 Head wind prevention device (not applicable) 11
3.3.3 Flame supervision device 11
3.3.4 Other devices 11
3.4 Performance 11
3.4.1 Product performance 11
3.4.2 Material performance <Newly established on December 18, 2013> 13
3.4.3 Operating performance 14
3.5 Heat Treatment (currently not used) 19
3.6 Marking 19
3.6.1 Product marking 19
3.6.2 Acceptance mark 19
3.6.3 Enclosure of manual 20
3.6.4 Marking of gas safety rule 20
4. Inspection Standard 21
4.1 Kinds of Inspections 21
4.1.1 Manufacturing installation inspection 21
4.1.2 Product inspection 21
4.2 Object Audit of Process Inspection 23
4.2.1 Application for audit 23
4.2.2 Audit method 24
4.2.3 Adjudication committee 24
4.3 Inspection Items 25
4.3.1 Manufacturing installation inspection 25
4.3.2 Product inspection 25
4.4 Inspection Method 28
4.4.1 Manufacturing installation inspection 28
4.4.2 Product inspection 28
4.5 Other Inspection Standards 32
4.5.1 Inspection of imported products 32
4.5.2 Partial omission of inspection 32
4.5.3 Disposal of rejected products (not applicable) 33
4.5.4 Detailed inspection standards 33
Appendix A General Standard for Operation of Quality Control System for Gas Appliance Manufacturing Plants 34
Appendix B General Test Conditions for Gas Rice Cookers <Newly established on May 20, 2013> 39
Appendix C Test Methods for Rice Cookers 42
