Wide-Angle Half Overlay Hinge With Dowel Mounting for Face-Frame and Frameless Cabinets

This Hettich Sensys concealed hinge opens to 165 degrees with half overlay geometry, Silent System soft-close, and a dowel-mount cup, on both face-frame and frameless cabinets.

Key Features

• 165 degree opening angle swings the door nearly flat to the cabinet side, clearing interior contents for unobstructed access.
• Integrated Silent System soft-close damps the door smoothly over the final closing arc, protecting the finish and frame with every use.
• Half overlay, half crank arm positions the door at a partial overlay, correct for two doors sharing a center partition.
• Dowel mount cup presses into pre-bored dowel holes for a screwless, CNC-ready door-side installation.
• Door thickness range 15 to 32mm spans thin veneered panels through solid-wood doors that exceed the standard 22mm window.
• Nickel finish on plated steel reads cleanly alongside polished and satin metal hardware in the same run.

Where the 165 Degree Swing Earns Its Place

A 165 degree opening is a practical choice anywhere full interior access matters: pantry pull-outs, base cabinets where drawers or bins sit close to the door opening, and wall cabinets above counters where the door needs to clear a wide swing without catching on the carcass or adjacent door. The half crank arm is the correct geometry for doors sharing a center partition, where two half-overlay doors meet on a single stile or panel edge without the arms colliding. The 35mm cup bores into the back of the door, and the hinge arm connects to a Hettich base plate on the cabinet side, ordered separately. A wide door thickness window, 15 to 32mm, accommodates everything from thin-frame MDF slab doors to heavier solid-wood overlay doors in the same series.

Nickel Finish, Silent System Build

The hinge body is plated steel in a nickel finish, a tone that coordinates with brushed and satin metal pulls, knobs, and drawer slides across the same project. The Silent System soft-close mechanism is built into the Sensys hinge body itself, so there is no add-on damper to source, clip, or adjust separately. It damps the closing motion quietly and consistently, which matters most on the wide-angle swing where a door traveling farther has more momentum to absorb at close. Hettich's three-way cam adjustment is available through the matching cross plates, dialing in height, depth, and side position to bring a full run of doors to an even reveal.

Who Reaches for This Hinge

Cabinet shops running CNC production benefit most directly from the dowel mount: the cup presses into pre-bored 8mm dowel holes without cup screws, keeping line speeds up and eliminating the screw-setting step at the door boring station. The wide thickness range means one SKU covers thin veneered slab doors and thicker solid-wood doors in the same order, reducing the number of hinge part numbers a shop needs to manage. Contractors and installers fitting face-frame kitchens or frameless Euro-box runs get the same dependable Sensys soft-close on either cabinet construction. For a project where door access is the priority and the design uses two doors on shared partitions, this 165 degree half overlay hinge is the right spec.

Common Questions

Full Access, Quiet Close, Production-Ready Mounting

Specify this hinge when the job calls for wide-opening half overlay doors, a built-in silent close, and a dowel mount that keeps CNC line speeds moving on either face-frame or frameless cabinets.