Patent 7589512 was granted and assigned to Yazaki on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A load control device includes a triangular wave generation portion which generates a triangular wave signal by charging/discharging a capacitor based on a constant current supplied from a constant current source, a load control portion which controls a load based on the triangular wave signal, and a temperature compensation element whose characteristic changes with a rise in temperature, which is provided to the constant current source.