DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS

ISO 9994:2005 establishes requirements for lighters to ensure a reasonable degree of safety for normal use or reasonably foreseeable misuse of such lighters by users.

The safety specification given in this International Standard applies to all flame-producing products commonly known as cigarette lighters, cigar lighters and pipe lighters. It does not apply to matches, nor does it apply to other flame-producing products intended solely for igniting materials other than cigarettes, cigars, and pipes.

Lighters, being flame-producing devices, can, as do all flame sources, present a potential hazard to users. The safety specification given in this International Standard cannot eliminate all hazards, but is intended to reduce potential hazards to users.

EN ISO 9994 includes various mechanical tests to reduce the potential hazards to users. It focuses on the design integrity and covers the tests simulating the normal use as well as the reasonably foreseeable misuse. Some of the tests in EN ISO 9994 are as follow:

Functional Requirements:

• Flame height
• Flame height adjustment
• Resistance to spitting or sputtering and flaring

Structural Integrity Requirements:

• Compatibility with fuel
• Resistance to fuel loss
• Resistance to dropping
• Resistance to elevated temperature
• Resistance to internal pressure
• Burning behavior
• Resistance to cyclic burning
• Resistance to continuous burning