Abstract: A hermaphroditic electrical connector, preferably for use in high amperage applications, is disclosed. The connector comprises two substantially identically configured terminal elements adapted to be coupled together. Each of the terminal elements includes a conductive body, an elongated spring member and an open cup adapted to receive a portion of the elongated spring member and the conductive body of the other of the terminal elements when the terminal elements are coupled together.

Abstract: A plug and receptacle electrical connector has incorporated within one of its parts an insulative enclosure maintaining the pin or sockets contacts, as the case may be, in an electrically insulated relation, which enclosure also has cavities formed about each of the pin contacts for receiving inductors and/or one or more specially formed capacitors therein.Each inductor is an elongated hollow cylinder formed of a magnetic material (e.g., sintered ferrite), one such inductor being received within a member cavity and the pin (or socket) contacts on being assembled in the connector part extending through the respective inductor openings. A capacitor consists of an insulative cylinder with an axial opening therethrough and has select portions coated with first and second electrically conductive film electrodes.