Patent ID: 8381486

Claim:
A suspended ceiling grid comprising through runners and cross runners intersecting the through runners at right angles, the grid runners being roll formed sheet metal with a cross section that includes an upper hollow reinforcing bulb, a web extending below the bulb and a flange extending laterally on both sides of the web, the flange forming a three dimensional face including sides that extend with a vertical component and collectively represent a majority of the area of the flange visible from below the plane of the grid, opposed cross runners intersecting the through runners at locations along the through runners, the opposed cross runners at each location having ends joined by mutually interlocking end connectors extending through a slot in the web of the through runner, the cross runner ends including end edges on their flanges, the end edges being configured to abut a respective side of the flange of the through runner, a connector being arranged on the cross runner relative to the end edges of the associated flange such that when it is connected to an opposite connector, it causes the associated end edges to resiliently locally deflect the abutted flange side to substantially eliminate any gap therebetween.