Kitchen unit provided with a lighting system
AssigneeElectrolux Appliances Aktiebolag
InventorsLuigi Buriola, Giancarlo Arrigoni, Chiara Ciardetti, Valerio Verdoliva
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Abstract
A kitchen unit (200), for example an extraction hood, has a task lighting system (100) for illuminating an operative area (210) below the kitchen unit. The task lighting system includes: at least a plurality of fixed lighting elements (110) configured to generate, on the operative area, corresponding fixed elementary light spots (270) and macro light spots (280) by the union of the elementary light spots; and a control unit (115) configured to receive a spot position signal indicative of a desired position of a macro light spot and to selectively activate, based on the spot position signal, the lighting elements to generate a macro light spot with said desired position.
Claims21
A kitchen unit having a task lighting system for illuminating an operative area, the task lighting system comprising:
- a plurality of fixed lighting elements configured to generate, on the operative area, corresponding fixed elementary light spots and macro light spots formed by the union of the elementary light spots;
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- a control unit configured to receive a spot position signal indicative of a desired position of a macro light spot and to selectively activate, based on the spot position signal, the lighting elements to generate a macro light spot with said desired position.
A method for illuminating an operative area below a kitchen unit, the kitchen unit being provided with at least a plurality of fixed lighting elements configured to generate, on the operative area, corresponding fixed elementary light spots and macro light spots by the union of the elementary light spots, the method comprising selectively activating, based on a spot position command indicative of a desired position of a macro light spot, the lighting elements to generate a macro light spot with said desired position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.