Patent ID: 8273586

Claim:
A manufacturing method of a light emitting device comprising: a mounting step of mounting a plurality of light emitting elements on a substrate; a supporting step of supporting a side wall structure having a partition wall portion separating a plurality of light emitting areas at a predetermined relative position with respect to said substrate, each of said plurality of light emitting areas including at least one of said light emitting elements; and an encapsulating step of injecting encapsulating resin into said light emitting areas defined by said side wall structure to encapsulate said light emitting elements therein and to fix said side wall structure onto said substrate, wherein, in said supporting step, said side wall structure is supported such that said partition wall portion is separated by a space from said substrate, and wherein, in said encapsulating step, said encapsulating resin is injected to fill said space between said partition wall portion and said substrate, and each of said light emitting areas.