scope:

This Standard specifies the manually and electrically operated nursing beds principally intended for use in medical facilities (hereafter referred to as beds) that are capable of stepless adjustment of the angle of the back and leg sections, platform height and/or inclination of the whole bottom. This Standard is also applicable to the flat floor type beds without the adjusments mechanism. It is not applicable to the beds for medical care, the beds for children, the beds for a particular function and the electrically operated adjustable beds for home use.

NOTE 1 The International Standard corresponding to this Standard and the symbol of degree of correspondence are as follows.

IEC 60601-2-52 : 2009 Medical electrical equipment - Part 2-52 : Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of medical beds and Amendment 1 : 2015 (MOD)

In addition, symbols which denote the degree of correspondence in the contents between the relevant International Standard and JIS are IDT (identical), MOD (modified), and NEQ (not equivalent) according to ISO/IEC Guide 21-1.

NOTE 2 The beds for a particular function refer to those beds with other function (such as rolling function and delivery rable function) then the function of manual or mechanical stepless adjustment of the angle of the back and leg sections and/or platform height.

NOTE 3 The beds for medical care refer to those beds that are registered as medical devices in accordance with the Act on Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices.