Patent ID: 8704244

Claim:
A light emitting device (an LED) comprising a plurality of types of light emitting parts, each having: an LED element that emits ultraviolet radiation or violet color visible light; and a phosphor that absorbs the ultraviolet radiation or the violet color visible light to emit colored light, wherein: lights emitted by the plurality of types of light emitting parts become white light when all mixed with each other; the LED elements of the plurality of types of light emitting parts are all of same one type and mounted on a single base material; and two or more light emitting parts overlap with each other in their parts, wherein the LED elements are each arranged to be positioned below a non-overlapping portion of the light emitting part and the plurality of types of light emitting parts comprise at least a red color based light emitting part that dominantly emits red light and a blue color based light emitting part that dominantly emits blue light, wherein in the overlapping portion, the red color based light emitting part is positioned below the blue color based light emitting part, and wherein overlapping two upper light emitting parts are thicker than an overlapped underlying light emitting part.