Patent ID: 7956536

Claim:
A light emitting device comprising: a mounting portion having a recessed portion; a light emitting element, mounted on a bottom face of the recessed portion of the mounting portion, for emitting light having a predetermined peak wavelength; a layer of first phosphor particles, formed on the light emitting element, for absorbing light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of the light emitted from the light emitting element; second phosphor particles for absorbing at least one of light emitted from the first phosphor particles and light emitted from the light emitting element and for emitting light having a longer peak wavelength than that of said at least one of the light emitted from the first phosphor particles and the light emitted from the light emitting element; and a sealing member, in which said second phosphor particles are dispersed, for sealing the light emitting element and the layer of first phosphor particles in the recessed portion of the mounting portion, wherein said layer of the first phosphor particles is arranged so as to uniformly cover the surface of the light emitting element, and wherein a difference between the maximum and minimum values of correlated color temperatures is not greater than 500K when the correlated color temperatures of light emitted from the surface of the sealing member are measured every 10° in the range of from 10° to 170° with respect to the tangent plane at the center of the surface of the sealing member.