An apparatus for mounting a flat panel radiator into a ceiling grid. The
ceiling grid system includes openings defined by main beams and
crossbeams. The main beams are secured through hanger wires to a hard
ceiling. The main beams and the crossbeams have flanges with the
crossbeams resting on the flanges of the main beams. The mounting
apparatus has a frame including a top plate, a side plate, and a bottom
plate, containment elements and isolation elements attached to the frame,
and an acoustically transparent scrim attached to the bottom of the frame.
The flat panel radiator is mounted between containment elements and
isolation elements. The radiator panel can be fabricated from a honeycomb
core. The containment elements may be made from a stiff to resilient
material, whereas the isolation element will always be resilient to
vibration isolate the radiator panel from the ceiling grid system both
mechanically and acoustically. The flat panel sound radiator assembly can
also be installed in wall partitions.