TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - A method for assessing the potential for a dermal burn hazard from malfunctioning consumer electronic devices
JO  - Journal of burn care and research
A1  - Mikolajczak, Celina J.
A1  - Taylor, P. M.
SP  - 338
EP  - 345
VL  - 29
IS  - 2
N2  - We developed an approach to adapt the ASTM C1055-03 Standard to assess the potential for contact burn injury from portable consumer electronic devices. The approach involves measuring the maximum temperature profile during the fault and devising a way to reproduce these temperatures in an exemplar device in a controlled manner for thermesthesiometer measurements. By comparing the results of the thermesthesiometer measurements to the contact burn injury threshold data published in ASTM C1055-03 and various guidelines for unintentional contact times, we were able to predict whether a potential hazard exists and verify result with"finger tests."We applied this method on a number of occasions to assess the likelihood of a contact burn injury resulting from a fault arising inside portable consumer electronic devices.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1559-047X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/BCR.0b013e318166797c
ID  - ref1
ER  -