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IEC 61846:2025 is applicable to:
– therapy equipment using extracorporeally induced focused pressure pulse waves;
– therapy equipment producing focused mechanical energy excluding thermal energy.
This document does not apply to percutaneous and laser lithotripsy equipment.
This document does not apply to:
– histotripsy or other therapeutic ultrasound bursts of longer time duration than that of the pressure pulse;
– non-focused pressure pulse equipment.
This document specifies:
– measurable parameters which could be used in the declaration of the acoustic output of extracorporeal focused pressure pulse equipment;
– methods of measurement and characterization of the pressure field generated by focused pressure pulse equipment.
While this document has been developed for equipment intended for use in lithotripsy, it has been developed such that, as long as no other specific standards are available to be used for other medical applications of therapeutic extracorporeal focused pressure pulse equipment, this document can be used as a guideline.
IEC 61846:2025 cancels and replaces the first edition published in 1998. This edition constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
a) Change of title: "pressure pulse lithotripters" in the previous edition is changed to "therapeutic focused short pressure pulse sources" in order to take into account the development in the relevant technical and biomedical applications of such sources, which were originally used only for (kidney) lithotripsy, while recent applications include a wide range for the treatment of, for example, stone diseases, orthopaedic pain, tissue, cardiac and brain diseases.
The term "focused" was added to differentiate IEC 61846 from IEC 63045.
The term "short" was added to align the nomenclature to IEC 63045 and to differentiate IEC 61846 from standards in the HIFU and HITU fields.
b) Clause 1 and elsewhere in the document: The term "lithotripsy" is changed to "therapy" in order to account for the wide range of applications beyond stone diseases.
c) Clause 3: The "−6 dB" parameter definitions are replaced by "−n dB" to avoid misconceptions in the significance and use of these parameters and to account for newer findings in literature.
Additional "n MPa" parameters are introduced for the same reasons.
The definitions of "derived" parameters are aligned to those in recently published standards, for example IEC 62127-1.
New definitions were added which describe parameters appearing in newer relevant literature, for example "momentum", "average positive acoustic pressure", "cavitation induction index", "pulse to pulse variability", "total pressure pulse energy dose".
d) Clause 6: The terms "focus hydrophone" and "field hydrophone" were removed to account for newer technical developments. New terms distinguish between "hydrophones for pressure pulse measurements" and "hydrophones for quality assurance".
e) Annexes: Descriptions, tables and figures were edited to account for newer literature and standards as well as technical developments.

This document specifies the characteristics of grooved pins with round head, full-length diamond grooves and pilot point or chamfered point, in steel and stainless steel, and with nominal diameter 2 mm to 20 mm.
These grooved pins are designed to fulfil the main following function: locking together two or more parts, with the easiest installation (due to the pilot or chamfer point) and a highest level of pull-out resistance (due to the elastic fit behaviour of the pin).
The general requirements (including functional principles for grooved pins and assembly) are specified in ISO 13669.

This document specifies general performance requirements for washer-disinfectors (WD) and washer-disinfector accessories that are intended to be used for cleaning and disinfection of reusable medical devices. It specifies performance requirements for cleaning and disinfection as well as for the accessories that can be required to achieve the necessary performance. The methods and instrumentation required for validation, routine control and monitoring and requalification, periodically and after essential repairs, are also specified.
NOTE 1        The requirements can be applied to WD intended for use with other articles used in the context of medical, dental, pharmaceutical and veterinary practice.
The requirements for WD intended to process specific loads are specified in ISO 15883-2, ISO 15883-3, ISO 15883-4, ISO 15883-6 and ISO 15883-7. For WD intended to process loads of two or more different types, the requirements of the applicable parts of ISO 15883-2, ISO 15883-3, ISO 15883-4, ISO 15883-6 and ISO 15883-7 apply.
This document does not specify requirements intended for machines for use for laundry or general catering purposes.
This document does not include requirements for machines which are intended to sterilize the load, or which are designated as “sterilizers” and addressed in other standards.
The specified performance requirements of this document do not ensure the inactivation or removal of the causative agent(s) (prion protein) of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
NOTE 2        Chemicals in some cleaning agents and disinfectants can react with prion protein in a manner that can inhibit its removal or inactivation.  If the presence of prion protein is considered a possibility, then this can influence the choice of cleaning agent and disinfectant.
NOTE 3        This document can be used by prospective purchasers and manufacturers as the basis of agreement on the specification of a WD. The test methods for demonstration of conformity with the requirements of this document can also be employed by users to demonstrate continued conformity of the installed WD throughout its service life. Guidance on a routine test programme is given in Annex A.

This document specifies quantitative test methods to evaluate the antibacterial activity of footwear and components.
This document is applicable to all types of footwear and components employing non-diffusing antibacterial treatments.

This document specifies the characteristics of taper grooved pins with full-length progressive grooves (with closed end at the insertion side), in steel and stainless steel, and with nominal diameter 1 mm to 25 mm.
These grooved pins are designed to fulfil the main following function: locking together two or more parts, with an easy installation (due to its shape) and a high level of pull-out resistance (due to the elastic fit behaviour of the pin).
The general requirements (including functional principles for grooved pins and assembly) are specified in ISO 13669.

IEC 60086-4:2025 specifies tests and requirements for primary lithium batteries to ensure their safe operation under intended use and reasonably foreseeable misuse.
This sixth edition cancels and replaces the fifth edition published in 2019. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
- Added definitions for leakage and venting, in addition to the test criteria;
- Revised overdischarge test;
- Revised marking requirements;
- Revised criteria for the child resistant packaging test;
- Changed the purpose of Annex F from "informative" to "normative";
- Added a new Annex G with additional measures against misuse of batteries not intended for consumer replacement;
- Integrated the contents of Interpretation Sheet 1 (IEC 60086-4:2019/ISH1:2020);
- In Clause 3, terms were reordered according their functions: basic terms, electrochemical systems, battery shapes, battery sizes, electrical characteristics, specifications, safety aspects, failure modes;
- In 6.4.4, the exemption for the shock acceleration for lithium primary batteries was reduced from 12 kg to 4,482 kg in order to reflect the fact that this is the threshold in IEC 62281, Test T-4, where the peak acceleration decreases below 150 gn.

This document specifies the characteristics of grooved parallel pins with half-length diamond grooves (close-ends), with rounded or chamfered pin ends, in steel and stainless steel, with nominal diameters 1 mm to 25 mm.
These grooved pins are designed to fulfil the main following functions:
— positioning or guiding,
— relative rotation of the assembled parts.
The general requirements (including principles for grooved pins and assembly) are specified in ISO 13669.

This part of ISO 16610 develops the terminology and concepts for Profile morphological segmentation. In particular it describes the watershed segmentation method, the Wolf pruning method and the Crossing-the-Line Method. This document assumes a continuous surface.

This document specifies the characteristics of parallel grooved pins with chamfer point and full-length diamond grooves (with open ends), in steel and stainless steel, and with nominal diameter 1 mm to 25 mm.
These grooved pins are designed to fulfil the main following function: locking together two or more parts, with an easy installation (due to the chamfer point) and a highest level of pull-out resistance (due to the elastic fit behaviour of the pin).
The general requirements (including functional principles for grooved pins and assembly) are specified in ISO 13669.

This document specifies criteria for sampling and gives guidance on the sampling from melts in order to verify if the chemical composition of the product fabricated from a metal melt is in conformance with the specification.
NOTE   For sampling from product or laboratory samples see EN 14242 or EN 14726.

IEC 63563-3:2025 identifies basic physical design requirements and guidelines for Power Transmitter and Power Receiver Products, including product and system dimensions, alignment of the products, surface temperature rise, and indications to the user.

IEC 63430:2025 specifies a container format for sensing data and its system requirements. This document applies to edge computing devices such as smartphones, home gateways, multimedia coordinators, etc., and cloud systems. This document describes the following technical specifications: - container format for wearable sensor data; - Schema Repository that defines the parameters and syntax of sensor data; - communication and system requirements between the edge computing device and Schema Repository.

IEC 63563-5:2025 defines the low-level (physical layer and the data link layer) formats of data bits, data bytes, and data packets. In addition, it provides requirements and guidelines for load modulation and frequency-shift keying.

IEC 63563-9:2025 defines the architecture and application-level messaging for the Authentication of a Power Transmitter Product by a Power Receiver to ensure that the Power Transmitter Product is both Qi certified and the product of a registered manufacturer.

IEC 63563-1:2025 introduces the Qi Specification, which applies to flat surface devices such as mobile phones and tablets that use up to 15 W of power

IEC 63563-10:2025 defines MPP (Magnetic Power Profile), an extension to Qi v1.3 BPP (Baseline Power Profile). Manufacturers can use this specification to implement PTx and/or PRx that are interoperable.

This document specifies the default (implicit) tolerances for indication in the ISO 10110 series, which standardizes drawing indications for optical elements and systems.

IEC 63563-6:2025 defines the messaging between a Power Transmitter and a Power Receiver. The primary purpose of this messaging is to set up and control the power transfer. As a secondary purpose, it provides a transport mechanism for higher-level applications such as Authentication. The communications protocol comprises both the required order and timing relations of successive messages.

This document specifies the tolerances on form and dimensions of the following: — wrought aluminium and aluminium alloy extruded round tubes, having diameters from 13 mm up to 450 mm. — wrought aluminium and aluminium alloy extruded square, rectangular and hexagonal tubes, having circumscribing circle up to 350 mm in diameter. This document is applicable to extruded round, square, rectangular and hexagonal tubes. Four-digit numerical designations are in line with the Registration of International Alloy Designations and Chemical Composition Limits for Wrought Aluminum and Wrought Aluminum Alloys (known as "Teal sheets").[1]