Housing and control circuit assembly with sensing element

A housing and sensing circuit assembly with positioning of a sensing element in one of a plurality of positions, comprising:

• a circuit housing to be mounted in a sensing location;
• a sensing element;
• a sensing element housing defined by opposite back and end walls joined together by a plurality of interconnected side walls;
• an interior wall parallel to one of the side walls, extending from the back wall toward the end wall, said interior wall being spaced from one side wall to hold the sensing element against the one side wall, said interior wall having an end spaced from the end wall a distance sufficient to allow mounting of the sensing element against the end wall and underlying the end of the interior wall;
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• means for connecting said sensing element housing with said circuit housing, with the side walls of the sensing element housing in a selected orientation, whereby said sensing element may selectively be located in said sensing element housing either against said end wall or between said interior wall and said one side wall, and said sensing element housing may be connected with said circuit housing in a selected orientation to position said sensing element in a desired one of a plurality of positions with respect to said circuit housing.

A housing assembly and pair of complementary circuits, comprising:

• a pair of housings enclosing the pair of cooperating circuits, said pair of housings having a pair of mating walls, both of said housings having cavities in the mating walls thereof;
• means for securing the housings together with the mating walls in abutment and in a selected one of a plurality of orientations;
• a rigid conductor connected with the circuit in one of said housings, extending into and entirely contained within and protected by the cavity in the mating wall of said one housing;
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• a flexible conductor connected with the circuit in the other of said housings, protruding from the cavity in the mating wall of said other housing for connection with said rigid conductor, said flexible conductor being of sufficient length to enable separation of the mating walls and selection of the orientation therebetween, said flexible conductor being folded and contained within said cavities when said mating walls are in abutment.