FUEL INJECTION VALVE

Provided is a fuel injection valve where it is possible to suppress the occurrence of a damage on a valve seat portion of a control valve of a back pressure control part caused by a foreign substance in high pressure fuel. [0002] An inlet connector having an introducing passage for high pressure fuel is mounted on an inlet opening portion of a housing, a fuel chamber is formed between an end surface portion of the inlet connector and a bottom surface portion of the inlet opening portion, a first fuel passage which communicates with a nozzle side opens at an outer peripheral portion of the bottom surface portion within a region of the fuel chamber, and a second fuel passage which communicates with a back pressure control part side opens at a center portion, and the inlet connector is configured such that high pressure fuel introduced into the fuel chamber from the inlet connector is capable of forming a swirl flow.