Patent 7723740 was granted and assigned to Nichia on May, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A light emitting device that light of various colors by blending lights emitted by two or more kinds of fluorescent materials which are substantially directly excited by light emitted by an excitation source having principal emission peak in a range from 250 nm to 500 nm. Each of the fluorescent materials is of a direct-transition type.