Pressure limiting valve

(57) Abstract: A pressure limiting valve for a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine, the connecting portion returns a casing and a connecting portion back to high-pressure connection, the valve seat facing the high-pressure connection and in in the housing bore between the stopper facing, it has a cup-shaped piston which is slidable in the axial direction against the spring force of the spring acting in the direction of the valve seat, the piston in the inside of the cup-shaped piston of the type having at least one through flow opening to communicate with the housing bore, at least one throttle element is arranged in front of and or behind the valve seat in the flow direction of the fuel It is characterized in that there.