Static electricity is a natural phenomenon that exists objectively, and it can be produced in many ways, such as contact, friction, and induction between electrical appliances. The characteristics of static electricity are long-term accumulation, high voltage, low power, low current and short action time.

Human body's own actions or contact, separation, friction or induction with other objects can generate thousands of volts or even tens of thousands of volts of static electricity.

 

 

Static electricity causes serious harm in many areas. Friction electrification and human body static electricity are two major hazards in the electronics industry, which often cause unstable operation or even damage to electronic and electrical products.

The main measures of electrostatic protection in the production process are electrostatic leakage, dissipation, neutralization, humidification, shielding and grounding.

The human body electrostatic protection system mainly consists of anti-static wrist straps, ankle straps, heel straps, work clothes, footwear, caps, gloves or finger cots, etc. It has the functions of static discharge, neutralization and shielding.

Electrostatic protection is a long-term systematic project. Any mistakes or omissions in any link will cause the failure of electrostatic protection.

 

The harm of static electricity

Static electricity can be said to be ubiquitous in our daily life. There are high electrostatic voltages on and around our bodies, thousands of volts or even tens of thousands of volts. Usually, people may not realize that the static electricity of a chemical fiber carpet is about 35,000 volts, and reading the plastic manual is about 7,000 volts. For some sensitive instruments, this voltage may be a fatal hazard.

Electrostatics mainly studies electrostatic application technology, such as electrostatic dust removal, electrostatic photocopying, electrostatic biological effects, etc. More important is the electrostatic protection technology, such as the electronic industry, the petroleum industry, the weapon industry, the textile industry, the rubber industry, and the aerospace and military fields of electrostatic hazards, seeking to reduce the losses caused by static electricity. With the rapid development of science and technology, the wide application of microelectronics technology and the increasingly complex electromagnetic environment, the electromagnetic field effects of electrostatic discharge, such as electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), have become an urgent problem to be solved. . On the one hand, some high-resistivity polymer materials such as plastics, rubber and other products are widely used and the modern production process is speeding up. On July 29, 1967, a serious accident occurred on the Forrestal aircraft carrier in the United States. The missile ignited suddenly, causing losses of 72 million U.S. dollars and injuring 134 people. The investigation results showed that the missile shielding joint was unqualified, and static electricity caused the ignition. At the end of 1969, in less than a month, the static electricity generated during the washing of the three 200,000-ton supertankers of the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom caused successive explosions.