Patent ID: 8716721

Claim:
A light emitting device comprising: a substrate having a plurality of light emitting elements mounted thereon, said light emitting elements being connected to bonding wires respectively; a side wall structure having a partition wall portion having a plurality of completely split openings and separating through said plurality of openings a plurality of light emitting areas that each include at least one of said light emitting elements; and encapsulating resin filled in said light emitting areas to bury said light emitting elements and said bonding wires therein, wherein said side wall structure is separated by a space from said substrate at, at least, said partition wall portion so as to be in noncontact with the substrate and electrically in noncontact with said light emitting elements, and wherein said encapsulating resin is formed so as to integrally, continuously fill said light emitting areas and said space without producing any interface therein.