Patent ID: 8461069

Claim:
A light emitting diode element, comprising: a light emitting diode; and a glass covering sealing the light emitting diode; wherein the glass covering is directly bonded to at least one surface of the light emitting diode element, the glass of the covering consists essentially of, as represented by mol% based on the following oxides: from 45 to 70% of SnO, from 15 to 40% of P 2 O 5 , from 0.1 to 13% of ZnO, from 0 to 10% of SiO 2 +GeO 2 , from 0 to 30% of Li 2 O+Na 2 O+K 2 O, and from 0 to 20% of MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO, and a total amount of SnO and ZnO is from 1.8 to 2.2 times an amount of P 2 O 5 .