GB/T 18411-2018Power-driven vehicles manufacturer’s plate (English PDF)

Foreword

This standard was drafted in accordance with the rules given in GB/T 1.1-2009. This standard replaces GB/T 18411-2001 "Road vehicle - Manufacturer's plate".

As compared with GB/T 18411-2001, except for editorial changes, the main technical changes are as follows.

- In clause 1, ADJUST the scope of application of the standard;

- In clause 2 terms and definitions, ADD the relevant reference standards;

- In clause 4.1, ADD the shape requirements of the manufacturer's plate;

- In clause 5.1.1, DIVIDE the marking content of the manufacturer's plate into the specified items and optional items, and no longer set the specified area or free area;

- In clause 5.2 specified item requirements, ADD the Table 1 and Table 2, to define the specified item content and marking specifications;

- In clause 6.1, INTEGRATE the marking position requirements of the manufacturer's plate;

- In clause 7.4, ADD the requirements for anti-counterfeit fonts and GIVE examples.

1 Scope

This standard specifies the type, marking content, marking position and marking requirements of power-driven vehicles manufacturer's plate.

This standard applies to automobiles and non-complete vehicles, trailers, motorcycles and mopeds, tractors that constitute tractor transport units, wheel-type special machinery vehicles, special-type vehicles, and other vehicles can make reference to it.

2 Normative references

The following documents are essential to the application of this document. For the dated documents, only the versions with the dates indicated are applicable to this document; for the undated documents, only the latest version (including all the amendments) are applicable to this standard.

GB 7258 Safety specifications for power-driven vehicles operating on roads

GB 16735 Road vehicle - Vehicle identification number (VIN)

GB/T 18410 Vehicle identification number bar-code label

GB/T 21085 Certificate of vehicle

GB/T 25978 Road vehicle - Plate and label

3 Terms and definitions

The terms and definitions defined in GB 7258, GB 16735, and GB/T 21085 apply to this document.

4 Types of manufacturer's plate

4.1 The outline of the manufacturer's plate shall be rectangular and it can be rounded.

5 Manufacturer's plate marking content

6 Marking position of manufacturer's plate

6.1 Vehicles shall be marked with at least one manufacturer's plate.

6.2 For multi-stage finished vehicles, the intermediate stage manufacturing plant and the final stage manufacturing plant shall maintain the manufacturer's plate of the complete vehicle or complete vehicle in the previous stage when the multi-stage vehicle is manufactured; and shall mark the multi-stage manufactured vehicle with the corresponding manufacturer's plate.

6.3 Vehicle manufacturers may also mark manufacturer's plates in multiple locations, but at least one of them shall meet the requirements of 6.1.

7 Marking requirements for manufacturer's plates

7.1 The Chinese characters, Arabic numerals and Roman letters used on the manufacturer's plate shall be not less than 4 mm. If the manufacturer's plate content is printed directly on the vehicle parts, the printed font height shall be no less than 7 mm.

7.2 The manufacturer's plate shall be permanently marked on the structural member of the vehicle that is not easily removed or replaced.

7.3 At least one place of the manufacturer's plates shall use anti-counterfeiting fonts (such as dot-matrix fonts, special processing fonts, etc.), as shown in Table 3. […]