To provide a vehicle component using a tailored blank in which the strength of a flanged part of a deep-drawn shell to be pressed and a side wall part thereof is increased.
In the vehicle component forming a substantially square container which is deep-drawn pressed with a flange 7 integrated with a circumferential edge part of an opening end 6, at least first opposing wall parts 4 and 5 and parts 7a and 7b located at the opening end of the first wall parts of a flange 7 are formed of high-strength members 13 and 14 on both sides of a tailored blank 11 coupled with the high-strength members 13 and 14 on both sides of a base material 12, and a bottom wall 2, a second opposing wall part 3 and a flange 7c located at opening ends of the second wall part 3 are formed of the base material 12.
Junichi Yamanaka
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