Patent ID: 7922853

Claim:
A method of producing a component with the following steps: a) preparing a blank which has a thermoplastic material, reinforced with several fibre layers, wherein the blank has an essentially V-shaped cut-out whose tip coincides with a point of intersection of three predetermined edge lines of the blank and has an approximately circular recess; b) shaping the blank along the predetermined edge lines, largely with termination of a slide of the fibre layers, to form a preform comprising preform edge lines which run approximately perpendicularly to each other; c) placing the preform on an upper or lower tool of a press, such that the preform has a pyramid shape with a base surface and three lateral surfaces, which together form a preform tip, so that the approximately circular recess of the preform rests in the region of the preform tip so that the base surfaces of the preform assigned to the V-shaped section of the preform bear against one of the lateral surfaces at least partially; d) compressing the preform in the press to form the final edge lines and consolidation of the preform and hence formation of the component.