Patent ID: 8302889

Claim:
A fuel injection valve which has a valve body for opening and closing a valve seat, and receives an operation signal from a control unit to operate said valve body, so that fuel is injected from a plurality of injection holes formed in an injection hole plate to a downstream side of said valve seat while passing through a gap between said valve body and said valve seat, wherein said injection hole plate has a convex portion protruding to a downstream side substantially in parallel to a tip end portion of said valve body; an extension of a valve seat portion of said valve seat crosses said injection hole plate diametrically outside of said convex portion; inlet portions of said injection holes are disposed at locations diametrically outside of said convex portion and diametrically inside of a valve seat opening inner wall which is a minimum inside diameter of said valve seat; and an overhead height h of each of said injection holes, represented by a distance of the tip end portion of said valve body from the center of each of said inlet portions of said injection holes in a direction of a valve seat axis, and an inlet diameter d of each of said injection holes has a relation of h≦1.5 d in a valve opened state.