Patent ID: 8182111

Claim:
Method of making a cable lighting assembly, said method comprising: providing a flexible electrical cable comprising an electrical conductor insulated by electrical insulation; providing a light emitting diode comprising a light emitting die mounted on a heat slug and electrically connected to an anode lead and a cathode lead; removing a portion of the electrical insulation to expose at least one surface mounting area on the surface of the electrical conductor of the flexible electrical cable; electrically isolating two lengths of the electrical conductor so as to form at least two electrically isolated surface mounting areas that are electrically isolated from each other; surface mounting the light emitting diode to the electrical conductor by forming a solder joint between the anode lead of the light emitting diode and one of the electrically isolated surface mounting areas and forming another solder joint between the cathode lead of the light emitting diode and the other electrically isolated surface mounting area; injection molding a polymeric molding material so as to encapsulate the light emitting diode and a length of the flexible electrical cable on which the light emitting diode is surface mounted, wherein the polymeric molding material is injection molded under a sufficiently low injection pressure so as not to damage either solder joint, and at least a portion of the light emitting die of the light emitting diode remains exposed enough to emit an illuminating light.