Patent ID: 8524541

Claim:
A manufacturing process for making a light emitting diode (LED) package having a top surface, an opposing bottom surface, a left surface, and an opposing right surface, wherein the left and the right surfaces extend between the top and bottom surfaces, the manufacturing process comprising: mounting an LED on an inner end of a first metal, wherein the LED is electrically coupled to the first metal, and wherein an outer end of the first metal terminates at an outer edge; electrically coupling the LED to an inner end of a second metal by a metal wire, wherein an outer end of the second metal terminates at an outer edge; bending the outer end of the first metal in a first direction along the left surface of the LED package and along the top surface to form a top electrode of the LED package; bending the outer end of the second metal in a second direction opposite of the first direction along the right surface of the LED package and along the bottom surface to form a bottom electrode of the LED package; and enclosing the LED and the metal wire in a protection molding, wherein said bending the outer end of the first metal places the outer edge of the first metal at the top surface of the LED package, and wherein said bending the outer end of the second metal places the outer edge of the second metal at the bottom surface of the LED package.