A method for producing a press-formed component by press forming a metal sheet, the press-formed component having a press-formed component shape that has a hat-shaped cross-sectional shape including a vertical wall portion and a flange portion on both sides of a widthwise direction of a top sheet portion and that includes, at one or more places along a longitudinal direction of the top sheet portion, a curved portion curved in such a manner as to form a protrusion toward the top sheet portion as seen in a side view and a linear portion continuous to the curved portion in a longitudinal direction, the method comprising:
- a first forming step of press forming the metal sheet into an intermediate formed product that has a shape such that, as seen in the side view, a region to be the curved portion is bent out of a plane in a direction of the protrusion at a bending position set at a center portion in the longitudinal direction of the region to be the curved portion and that includes a projection portion formed by projecting regions to be the top sheet portion and the vertical wall portion in a direction of the protrusion relatively with respect to a region to be the flange portion;
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- a second forming step of performing bending on the intermediate formed product to form a ridge line between the top sheet portion and the vertical wall portion and a ridge line between the vertical wall portion and the flange portion in the press-formed component shape,
- wherein, in the region to be the flange portion, an angle to be bent out of the plane in the first forming step is set to equal to or less than an angle formed by the flange portion at the curved portion in the press-formed component shape as seen in the side view,
- the projection portion in the first forming step extends to a position to be the linear portion, and is shaped to have a projection height that becomes smaller from the center portion in the longitudinal direction of the region to be the curved portion along the longitudinal direction to further away from the center portion, as seen in the side view, in which the projection height at the linear portion position is defined as 0, and the projection height at a vertical wall portion forming position is set to be an inclined surface such that the projection height gradually increases from the flange portion forming position toward the top sheet portion forming position along the widthwise direction,
- a difference between a longitudinal length of the region to be the top sheet portion and a longitudinal length of the top sheet portion in the press-formed component shape is set to equal to or less than 10% of the longitudinal length of the top sheet portion in the press-formed component shape, and
- when, as seen in the side view, the projection height at a projection vertex located perpendicularly relative to a surface of the flange portion forming position from a center of the curved portion in the longitudinal direction at the flange portion forming position is defined as h (mm), a position previously set between two curved portions in a case where there are a target curved portion and an adjacent curved portion or each end portion in the longitudinal direction of the metal sheet is defined as an end point, in which the projection height at the end point is set to 0 (mm), and the projection height at an intermediate point located perpendicularly from a midpoint between the projection vertex and the end point is defined as h′ (mm), the projection height h′ is set to satisfy the following expression (1):
- (1/3)·h≤h′≤(1/2)·h (1).