Abstract: A separator for a lithium ion battery includes, in sequence, a porous substrate, a ceramic coating positioned on one side of the substrate, and a gel coating positioned on the ceramic coating. This disclosure also includes a preparation method for forming such a separator, and a lithium ion battery that includes such a separator.

Abstract: Method and device for processing a payment are disclosed. The method is performed at a user device and includes: receiving a user instruction for starting a payment through a pre-set payment platform; selecting a respective loading process from a plurality of loading processes for invoking a payment application, wherein: the plurality of loading processes include two or more of: (1) a first loading process for invoking the payment application immediately in a foreground process, (2) a second loading process for simulating at least one payment interface of the payment application in the purchase application before loading the payment application in the user device, and (3) a third loading process for completing the payment using simulated payment interfaces of the payment application without loading the payment application in the user device.

Abstract: A hanger element for one or more receiving bracket apertures that receives a hanging item. The hanger element includes a load bearing, concave shaped flange that attaches to the one or more receiving bracket aperture. A trailing concave shaped, curved hanging structure extends from the load bearing, concave shaped flange.

Abstract: A smart card read/write method is performed at a terminal, including: sensing a touch event of a smart card, and obtaining an application identifier corresponding to the touch event; searching for a third-party application link corresponding to the application identifier, and capturing and displaying a web page corresponding to the third-party application link, the web page comprising a function menu and an instruction script corresponding to options in the function menu being preselected from a preset standard script library; obtaining an option triggered in the function menu on the web page, and sending a smart card control request to a platform application server by executing an instruction script corresponding to the triggered option; and receiving a smart card control instruction returned by the platform application server, and invoking a corresponding interface function according to the smart card control instruction to read/write the smart card.

Abstract: An information processing method, which is applied to a server, includes: a public message is transmitted to a first client, the public message being a message issued to the first client by the server, the public message carrying first information and a second information set including N pieces of second information, with N being a positive integer, the first information is information only allowed to be gotten by the first client and the second information is information only allowed to be gotten by a client in a sharing relationship with the first client; and a request for getting the second information is received from a second client, it is verified whether the second client is in the sharing relationship with the first client, and after the second client is determined to be in the sharing relationship with the first client, the second client is allowed to get the second information.

Abstract: A replaceable water filter includes a filter assembly having a filter structure with first, second, and third filtering elements sharing a common axis, the first filtering element for removing and/or reducing particulate contaminants in the water, the second filtering element for removing and/or reducing particulate and organic contaminants in the water and the third filtering element for removing and/or reducing at least one of fluoride and arsenic in the water. The filter further includes a housing that contains the filter assembly. The housing includes a first end adapted to removably attach the filter to a filter mount of the refrigerator where the filter communicates with the water supply of the refrigerator. The first filtering element can be fabric, the second filtering element can be a carbon block, and the third filtering element can be activated alumina.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating radiation-detecting structures are presented. The methods include, for instance: fabricating a radiation-detecting structure, the fabricating including: providing a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a plurality of cavities extending into the semiconductor substrate from a surface thereof; and electrophoretically depositing radiation-detecting particles of a radiation-detecting material into the plurality of cavities extending into the semiconductor substrate, where the electrophoretically depositing fills the plurality of cavities with the radiation-detecting particles. In one embodiment, the providing can include electrochemically etching the semiconductor substrate to form the plurality of cavities extending into the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an energy-recycling hydraulic control main valve, which is provided with end covers, a valve core, a left one-way valve and a right one-way valve; the left one-way valve is composed of a left valve seat, a left cone valve core and a left spring; a conical surface of the left cone valve core is closely attached to a left conical surface of the valve core by the spring force; the right one-way valve is composed of a right valve seat, a right cone valve core and a right spring; and a conical surface of the right cone valve core is closely attached to a right conical surface of the valve core by spring force. The hydraulic main control valve can not only limit the falling speed of a piston, but use the potential energy generated by the gravity action on the piston, thereby achieving energy recycling.

Abstract: A pressure compensation valve comprises a valve body, a valve sleeve fixedly mounted on the valve body, and a spool disposed in a valve hole of the valve body and capable of moving. The pressure compensation valve can change the pressure compensation characteristic, that is, the pressure compensation valve can change the difficult degree of the pressurized oil liquid flowing by changing an effective pressure acting surface of the pressure compensation valve The structure is simple, requires low cost, and increases the utilization rate of a product.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate generally to directed self-assembly (DSA) and, more particularly, to the DSA of electronic components using diamagnetic levitation.

Abstract: An outlet device with collected the outer sound to control the waterway includes a shower, an electromagnetic valve, a control module and a power module with an impeller and a generator. The control module includes a sound detecting module, a calculating module, a processing module and a driving module. The sound detecting module collects the outer sound and outputs the control signal; the calculating module is connected to the power module to determine whether the real-time flowing value exceeds the preset value. If it exceeds the present value, the control module and the electromagnetic valve are turned off. The calculating module is connected to the sound detecting module and outputs the driving signal after receiving the control signal. The driving module is connected to the processing module and the electromagnetic valve. The driving module drives the electromagnetic valve when receiving the driving signal.

Abstract: Methods for fabricating radiation-detecting structures are presented. The methods include, for instance: fabricating a radiation-detecting structure, the fabricating including: providing a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a plurality of cavities extending into the semiconductor substrate from a surface thereof; and electrophoretically depositing radiation-detecting particles of a radiation-detecting material into the plurality of cavities extending into the semiconductor substrate, where the electrophoretically depositing fills the plurality of cavities with the radiation-detecting particles. In one embodiment, the providing can include electrochemically etching the semiconductor substrate to form the plurality of cavities extending into the semiconductor substrate.

Abstract: Radiation detecting-structures and fabrications methods thereof are presented. The methods include, for instance: providing a substrate, the substrate including at least one trench extending into the substrate from an upper surface thereof; and epitaxially forming a radiation-responsive semiconductor material layer from one or more sidewalls of the at least one trench of the substrate, the radiation-responsive semiconductor material layer responding to incident radiation by generating charge carriers therein. In one embodiment, the sidewalls of the at least one trench of the substrate include a (111) surface of the substrate, which facilitates epitaxially forming the radiation-responsive semiconductor material layer. In another embodiment, the radiation-responsive semiconductor material layer includes hexagonal boron nitride, and the epitaxially forming includes providing the hexagonal boron nitride with an a-axis aligned parallel to the sidewalls of the trench.

Abstract: To facilitate legal research, companies, such as Thomson West provide subscription-based online information-retrieval systems. Seeking to improve these and/or related systems, the present inventors devised, among other things, an exemplary legal research system that performs a conventional search to identify a set of starter documents and then leverages the metadata associated with these starter documents to identify another larger set of relevant documents. Documents in this alternate set are then scored using, for example, a learning machine and feature vectors that account for metadata relationships between the starter documents and alternate documents.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula I wherein Y—X, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, A1, A2, A3, Ra and n are as defined in claim 1. Furthermore, the present invention relates to agrochemical compositions which comprise compounds of formula (I), to preparation of these compositions, and to the use of the compounds or compositions in agriculture or horticulture for combating, preventing or controlling infestation of plants, harvested food crops, seeds or non-living materials by phytopathogenic microorganisms, in particular fungi.

Abstract: Roughly described, a method for developing a set of design rules for a fabrication process in development includes, for each of several candidate DRUTs for the fabrication process, laying our a logic cell based on the DRUT, the logic cell having at least one transistor and at least one interconnect, simulating fabrication of the logic cell according to the fabrication process and the layout, simulating behavior of the logic cell structure, including characterizing the combined behavior of both the first transistor and the first interconnect, evaluating performance of the logic cell structure in dependence upon the behavior as characterized, and recording in a database, in association with an indication of the DRUT, values indicating performance of the logic cell. The database can be used to select the best DRUT for the fabrication process.