Patent ID: 8283675

Claim:
A light emitting device, comprising: a substrate; a light emitting element placed on the substrate; a bonding member, having light transmitting property, for fixing the light emitting element to the substrate; and a sealing member for sealing the light emitting element and the bonding member, the sealing member having light transmitting property and containing a fluorophor, wherein: a fluorophor-containing area comprising the fluorophor is placed so as to be in contact with faces except a substrate-side lower face out of individual faces forming outer faces of the light emitting element and moreover in contact or out of contact with the substrate-side lower face of the light emitting element, the fluorophor is excited by emitted light of the light emitting element to emit fluorescent light is longer in wavelength than the emitted light; the substrate comprises, in its light emitting element-side surface, an overlapping portion coinciding and overlapping with the light emitting element, and grooves are provided outside at least one pair of opposite sides of the overlapping portion, and the bonding members are placed within the grooves, and the bonding member does not contain the fluorophor.