By analyzing new market trends and emerging user preferences, we realize that the current trend involves hobs with control panels that are increasingly feature-rich and therefore more articulated and complex than in the past.
Alongside the indispensable functions such as the on / off button or the controls for adjusting the cooking power, there are often also controls to adjust the ignition and power of the hood, cooking timer, different functions and indicators: in short, the hob now seems to require not only a control panel, but a real functional interface that places sets of information at the service of the end user to guide him in daily use.
At present, the luminous LEDs on the glass ceramic often have an “orange peel” optical effect due to the characteristics of the material, and in particular to the rear screening of the glass ceramic panel which ensures full mechanical resistance. On the other hand, however, this limits the achievement of an optimal result from the point of view of the legibility and sharpness of the commands and the luminous icons.
For this reason, the ILVA Glass R&D department has implemented a specific 4K technology in the ELECTA® glass ceramic hobs, which – safeguarding the physical-mechanical requirements of the hob – allows to have extremely defined and sharp luminous icons, even on very small scales.
This innovation allows new design possibilities, limiting for example the screen printing of signs and indicators and replacing them with light signals, which are activated only when necessary, leaving the top completely “silent” when it is off.
To learn more about how the possibilities that 4K technology offers to designers can raise the quality level and perceived value of the final product, the ILVA Glass technical team is available to customers and partners.
