Patent ID: 6984539

Claim:
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting diode device, comprising the following steps of: forming a lead frame including a first pattern part for use in mounting a light-emitting diode chip thereon, a second pattern part electrically connected to the first pattern part to be used as an electrode, a third pattern part spaced from the first pattern part to be electrically insulated from the first pattern part and used as another electrode, and a fourth pattern part and a fifth pattern part integrated with both sides of the first pattern part; plating the first, second and third pattern parts of the lead frame with a metal having high adhesion and conductivity, to prepare a plated first pattern part, a plated second pattern part, and a plated third pattern part; plating the fourth pattern part and the fifth pattern part with another metal having high reflectivity, to prepare plated fourth and fifth pattern parts; mounting the light-emitting diode chip on the plated first pattern part of the lead frame; wire-bonding the light-emitting diode chip mounted on the lead frame to portions of the second and third pattern parts, to form wire-bonded portions; molding the light-emitting diode chip and the wire-bonded portions so as to protect the light-emitting diode chip and the wire-bonded portions; upwardly folding the plated fourth and fifth pattern parts, neither being molded, relative to the first pattern part to allow plated surfaces of the fourth and fifth pattern parts to face each other, thus forming reflective surfaces; and forming non-molded portions of the second and third pattern parts to make leads.