Light emitting device

1. A light emitting device, comprising:

a light emitting diode chip;

a heat conductive plate which is made of a heat conductive material for mounting said light emitting diode chip;

a sub-mount member of a planar plate which is larger than said light emitting chip and smaller than said heat conductive plate, said sub-mount member being disposed between said light emitting chip and said heat conductive plate to relieve a stress acting upon said light emitting diode chip due to a difference between a linear thermal expansion coefficient for said light emitting diode and a linear thermal expansion coefficient for said heat conductive plate;

a dielectric substrate stacked on said sub-mount member, said dielectric substrate provided on a surface opposite of said heat conductive plate with a pair of lead patterns for electrical connection with respective electrodes of said light emitting diode chip, said dielectric substrate being formed with a through-hole through which said sub-mount member is exposed;

an encapsulation member made of a transparent and elastic material to encapsulate said light emitting diode chip; and

a lens superimposed on said encapsulation member;

wherein

said sub-mount member includes a reflective film disposed around a juncture of said light emitting diode chip to reflect a light emitted from a side face of said light emitting diode chip; and

said sub-mount member has a thickness such that said reflective film is located at a distance, from said heat conductive plate, greater than a distance between said heat conductive plate and said dielectric substrate;

a frame is provided on a surface of said dielectric substrate to surround said sub-mount member and said light emitting diode chip, said encapsulation member being defined by a transparent material filled inside of said frame, said frame being molded from a transparent resin; and

a dome-shaped color conversion member which is disposed on said dielectric substrate to cover said lens, said color conversion member being a molded member molded from a transparent material mixed with a fluorescent material which is excited by a light emitted from said light emitting diode chip and passing through said encapsulation member to radiate a light having a color different from that of the light emitting diode chip, said color conversion member being disposed to form an air layer between said color conversion member and a light emitting face of said lens.

2. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein

said light emitting diode chip and said sub-mount member are each configured to have a square planar shape,

said light emitting diode chip being disposed in a center said sub-mount member such that planar sides of said light emitting diode chip cross with corresponding diagonals of said sub-mount member.

3. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein

said light emitting diode chip has one electrode formed on one surface and another electrode formed on another surface, one of said electrodes being adjacent to said sub-mount member and being connected to one bonding wire through a conductor pattern on said sub-mount member, said another electrode being located at a distance from said sub-mount member and being connected to another bonding wire, said another bonding wire extending along a diagonal of said light emitting diode chip.

4. The light emitting device of claim 1 , wherein

said frame is formed into a cylindrical shape.