Patent ID: 8772065

Claim:
A method for producing a package body with an upper side, with an underside, opposite from the upper side, and with a side surface, which connects the upper side and the underside and is provided as a mounting surface, which package body has a plurality of layers which contain a ceramic material, and a main direction of extent of the layers running at right angles to the mounting surface, the method of comprising: providing a sheet having a stack of ceramic layers and, on an upper side, which corresponds to the upper side of the package body, a plurality of regularly arranged recesses; arranging via holes, which run from the upper side to the underside, between two adjacent ones of said recesses, and producing the package body by dividing the sheet into a plurality of package bodies, wherein the sheet is divided into the plurality of package bodies such that the via holes are asymmetrically separated in such a way that a first package body has on the mounting surface via holes that are well formed for electrical conduction, and wherein a second package body, adjacent to the first package body, has no via holes or remains of the separated via holes, on a side surface that is opposite from the mounting surface.