Patent ID: 8640938

Claim:
A fixing appliance for driving fixing elements, said appliance comprising: a cylinder of an internal combustion engine; a piston moveably mounted in a front part of the cylinder; a cooling fan mounted in a combustion chamber at a rear part of the cylinder; an electric drive motor connected to rotate said fan; an electronic management module and a supply battery electrically coupled to the motor for controlling and powering operations of the motor, respectively; and a thermistor sensitive to temperature and electrically connected to the electronic management module for transmitting temperature information to the electronic management module which is arranged to manage the temperature information supplied by the thermistor in order to determine an operating period of the fan after ignition according to the temperature information; wherein the thermistor is positioned rearward of said fan: and wherein the electric drive motor is connected to the electronic management module by a connecting circuit located at a rear end of said motor and the thermistor is directly mounted on the connecting circuit.