In recent years, the number of newborn babies in China has decreased, but due to its large base, the market penetration of breast pumps is relatively low. And the majority of women born in the 1980s and 1990s are professional women, with strong consumption power. The market demand for breast pumps is relatively prominent. In 2022, the market size of China’s breast pump market reached 2.083 billion yuan (RMB), and the breast pump industry has shown a good momentum of development.
However, the breast pump industry started relatively late in China, lacking relevant standards, and the market has been in a state of long-term chaos. The product mix has affected the development of the industry. For example, many enterprises are engaged in price wars in the fierce market competition, providing low-cost packages without supporting medical power supplies, and consumers choose the power supplies attached to mobile phones or small household appliances due to their desire for cheap; Designers are confused about commercial power supplies and medical power supplies, and manufacturers that manufacture various low-cost power supplies for the mass market may sell commercial power supplies as medical power supplies without modification.
Breast suction devices belong to medical devices and equipment, which are more professional than other mother and child appliances. Breast pump is an electronic instrument that comes into direct contact with the human body. Its medical application requires professional medical power supply support. Using power supply casually in medical devices can pose significant safety risks.
Unlike other commercial power supplies that are positioned in the mass market and care about cost, medical power supplies must comply with relevant regulations on safety, electrical leakage, EMI RFI radiation, and protection.
Power supplies designed for medical products must be highly reliable in terms of product performance while ensuring absolute operational safety of the device. Therefore, only a safe and reliable medical power supply can meet the stringent requirements of medical devices, providing safety assurance for the performance of the breast pump. Breast pump enterprises need to choose power supply companies with corresponding professional design capabilities and testing technology.
For the design of medical power supplies, the first choice must be product quality and reliability. UE power supply deepens into the field of medical device power supply safety. In order to ensure the safety and reliability of UE medical power supplies, UE power supplies strictly adhere to the principle of separation and balance between design and verification and the PCN operating specifications, ensuring the quality of research and development and design of power supplies from the design source, and has a product ORT verification system and EMC verification for quality control.
Medical power supplies must adopt appropriate design techniques to ensure stable operation in the event of abnormal input, and to be able to work under certain extraordinary environmental conditions. In these applications, EMC is a key issue, including how to reduce electromagnetic radiation and how to protect electromagnetic radiation. If an EMC problem occurs during the product testing process for a breast pump enterprise, UE has an EMC laboratory with a benchmarking medical certification registration agency that can provide EMC testing and rectification services 24 hours a day.
The release of the “Automatic Breast Pump” standard in 2017 pushed the breast pump industry into standardization and standardization. With the tightening of market regulation and the upgrading of consumption, in addition to increasing requirements for the performance of the instrument itself, the breast pump industry is also increasingly improving its standards for human safety. For example, China’s strict control of medical power supplies requires manufacturers to produce a quality certification system with relevant documents (meeting a series of requirements such as CE and UL medical certification) to verify that their quality control conforms to national medical standards.
Breast pump enterprises need to select medical power supplies that have component quality control procedures, quality data, and test documents that can confirm the quality and reliability of their products. UE medical power supply has five-fold protection against short cirQuankangt, overcurrent, overvoltage, overload, and power leakage; It complies with the medical 2MOPP standard and UL International Medical Certification Version 3.1, and meets the Level 6 Energy Star standard. It has passed various certifications such as cULus, TUV-GS, CE, RCM, CB, EMC, and reliability assessment, and is highly recognized by industry peers and customers.
To sum up, UE power supply is a power supply solution that meets the safety requirements of breast pumps and a power supply alternative for equipment upgrades.
