Connector with improved shielding

An electrical connector element comprising:

• a body of electrically insulating material having contact holes, each of said contact holes provided with an electrical conductive contact element, and said contact holes arranged in at least two columns and at least two rows, said columns having a longitudinal direction, and
• shielding elements of electrically conductive plate material being disposed in said body, said shielding elements being shaped and arranged so that at least two shielding elements are positioned such that a select number of neighboring contact elements are always entirely shielded from each other by parts of one of said at least two shielding elements,
• wherein said at least two shielding elements are shaped and arranged within one column in such a way that an open portion of each of said shielding elements is not adjacent to an open portion of a neighboring shielding element,
• wherein at least one of said shielding elements is adapted to be electrically coupled with a ground contact member of a mating connector,
• wherein at least said one of said at least two shielding elements comprises an integral resilient contact member near an end thereof for contacting said ground contact member of mating connector, and
• wherein said resilient contact member is provided with a generally curved contact surface near a front face of said body.