Patent ID: 7220619

Claim:
A cutting process for cutting connected electronic package structures, comprising: providing a plurality of electronic package structures connected through a mother carrier, wherein the mother carrier includes a plurality of carrier units and a plurality of cutting regions, each of the cutting regions being disposed between each two of the carrier units adjacent to each other, wherein each of the electronic package structures includes at least an electronic component and at least one of the carrier units and each of the electronic components is connected to the corresponding carrier unit, and wherein the electronic components are disposed on a first surface of the mother carrier; forming at least a supporting portion on the first surface of the mother carrier and on a portion of the cutting region of the mother carrier, by providing the supporting portion having one of at least a protrusion or at least a positioning hole; forming the other of the at least a protrusion or the at least a positioning hole on the mother carrier; and fitting the protrusion to the positioning hole; positioning the mother carrier to a supportive plane, wherein the first surface of the mother carrier faces the supportive plane and the supporting portion is in contact with the supportive plane; and cutting the mother carrier at the cutting regions, from a second surface of the mother carrier to remove the cutting regions and the supporting portion, so that the electronic package structures alongside the cutting regions are separated.