Patent ID: 7910944

Claim:
A side-mountable semiconductor light emitting device package, comprising: an electrically insulating substrate having a front face and a back face and a first side face and a second side face, opposite the first side face, extending therebetween, the first and second side faces being configured for mounting on an underlying surface; an electrically conductive contact proximate an edge of the substrate on the back face of the substrate and/or on a recessed region on the first and/or second side face of the substrate, the contact being positioned at a location on the substrate selected to be positioned proximate an electrical connection region of the underlying surface when the semiconductor light emitting device package is side mounted on the underlying surface; a conductive trace extending along the front face of the substrate and electrically connected to the contact; and a semiconductor light emitting device mounted on the front face of the substrate and electrically connected to the conductive trace, wherein the first and second side face of the substrate provide different angular orientations of the semiconductor light emitting device package relative to the underlying surface when the semiconductor light emitting device package is mounted on the underlying surface on a selected one of the first and second side face.