Patent ID: 8723409

Claim:
A light emitting device comprising: a housing member having a recess portion opening upward; a light emitting element disposed in the recess portion and comprising a light emitting layer comprising a semiconductor; a wavelength converting member disposed in the recess portion between the light emitting element and a top plane of the recess portion and configured to absorb part of light emitted from the light emitting element, convert the absorbed light into light of a different wavelength and emit the converted light, the light emitted from the light emitting element and the light converted by the wavelength converting member being mixed and emitted from an opening of the recess portion, the wavelength converting member having a plate shape; and a scattering surface provided on at least a portion of a side surface of the recess portion, which is irradiated with parallel incident light emitted from a side surface of the wavelength converting member and a side surface of the light emitting element, and configured to scatter the light emitted from the light emitting element and the light emitted from the wavelength converting member, said scattering surface being a surface of a material comprising a matrix material and light transmissive particles dispersed in the matrix material and having a different refractive index from a refractive index of the matrix material, wherein the light emitting element and the wavelength converting member are apart from the side surface of the recess portion, the side surface of the recess portion includes a beveled surface, and the beveled surface including the light scattering surface, a side surface of the light emitting element is not covered by the wavelength converting member, and light emitted from the side surface of the light emitting element and light converted by the wavelength converting member are scattered at the scattering surface and mixed with each other, wherein an entire space between said light emitting element and said scattering surface and between said wavelength converting member and said scattering surface is filled with a single optically transmissive member.