Patent ID: 8631675

Claim:
A method for hot-forming and hardening a sheet-metal component with flanges in a cooled forming tool, comprising the steps of: inserting a heated sheet-metal blank into the forming tool, wherein the forming tool has a hollow form and the sheet-metal blank projects over the hollow form in marginal regions, forming the sheet-metal blank into a sheet-metal component with the forming tool, press-hardening the sheet-metal component in the hollow form, producing at least one first flange by forming with an auxiliary tool a first marginal region on the sheet-metal component held in the hollow form, wherein an X-bending axis of the first flange is oriented at an angle of 90°±45° with respect to a stroke axis of the forming tool, and producing at least one second flange by forming with the auxiliary tool a second marginal region on the sheet-metal component held in the hollow form, wherein a Y-bending axis of the second flange is oriented at an angle of 0°±45° with respect to the stroke axis of the forming tool, wherein the at least one first flange with the X- bending axis and the at least one second flange with the Y-bending axis are produced in a single forming step.