Patent ID: 7750361

Claim:
A surface mount light emitting apparatus comprising: a substrate; a pair of patterned circuits formed on the substrate; a light emitting device mounted on one of the patterned circuits; and a sealing resin portion configured to seal the light emitting device, wherein one of the pair of patterned circuits includes a device mounting region configured to mount the light emitting device, and an other of the pair of patterned circuits includes a wire bond region which is wire-bonded to the light emitting device, the substrate is provided with a separation-inducing structure configured to induce an interfacial separation between the resin portion and the separation-inducing structure prior to an interfacial separation being induced between the light emitting device and the resin portion, the separation-inducing structure is made of a material having a thermal expansion coefficient substantially the same as a thermal expansion coefficient of the light emitting device, and the separation-inducing structure has a height greater than a height of the light emitting device taken in a main light emitting direction of the light emitting apparatus substantially normal to the substrate.