Patent ID: 7883242

Claim:
A bulb, comprising: a base, said base further comprising a closed end, an open end and a sleeve therebetween, wherein said sleeve serves as an electrode and said closed end comprises a contact point serving as another electrode; a hollow shell connected to said open end of said base; a strand of at least two LEDs, each LED comprising a base having electrical terminals and an envelope extending from said base to an envelope top end distal from said base, said LEDs joined together and arranged within the shell such that for all LEDs, but for the last LED, in each strand, said envelope top end of any given LED in said strand substantially faces said base of an adjacent LED in said strand, a self-supporting wire connecting one terminal of an LED in said strand to a next LED in said strand, such that said wire acts to support said strand; and wherein said bulb is adapted for connection to a power source.