Patent ID: 8366295

Claim:
A light emitting device comprising: at least one light emitting element; a pair of conductor members that are spaced away from each other at an interval in a side-surface direction of the light emitting element and are electrically connected to the light emitting element; a transparent board that mounts the light emitting element on an upper surface thereof and supports the pair of conductor members; a transparent member that is located on the transparent board and seals the light emitting element so as to allow light from the light emitting element to be emitted upwardly through the transparent member and downwardly through a lower surface of the transparent board which is opposite to the upper surface thereof; a pair of metal plates, each of which are secured on each of the pair of the conductor members, respectively; a transparent bulb that encloses the light emitting element; and a pair of support leads that secures the light emitting element inside the transparent bulb, wherein the pair of metal plates are sandwiched between the transparent member and the transparent board, one end of each of the metal plates is secured on the conductor members such that the conductor members are sandwiched between the metal plate and the transparent board, and the other end of each of the metal plates outwardly project beyond the transparent member and the transparent board in directions different from each other, and a width of each metal plate at which the transparent member covers is narrower than a width of the transparent member, wherein the light emitting element is mounted on the upper surface of the transparent board in a manner allowing the light emitted from the light emitting element passing both through the transparent member upwardly and through the lower surface of the transparent board downwardly, and wherein one end of each support lead connects to one end of each metal plate at distant portions from the light emitting element and wherein the at least one light emitting element is a light emitting diode chip or laser diode chip.