Patent ID: 7143514

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a vehicular part, comprising the steps of: preparing a blank material for the vehicular part; preparing a backing plate formed with at least one aperture to accommodate physical characteristics or properties of the blank material; placing the backing plate, with said at least one aperture formed therein, onto a desired part of the blank material such that said at least one aperture in said backing plate is aligned with and disposed along a desired bending line of said blank material; joining the backing plate and the blank material together while maintaining said at least one aperture in alignment with and disposed along said desired bending line; and after said backing plate is joined to said blank material, press-forming the blank material and the backing plate together into a desired configuration having a bent portion such that the at least one aperture of the backing plate is located on a bending line along which the bent portion is bent, said bending line corresponding to said desired bending line.