Abstract: A separator for a crop harvester configured to harvest sugarcane. The separator includes an extractor body that defines a chamber, the chamber extending through the extractor body and is in fluid communication with a cavity of a fan housing. The extractor body can generally define an inlet opening of the chamber, the inlet opening positioned to allow chopped billets and crop residue that are outputted from a chopper assembly to enter into the chamber. The inlet opening has a non-round, or non-circular configuration and/or cross sectional shape. Further, the inlet opening can have a width similar to a material flow width of the chopped billets and crop residue being outputted from the chopper assembly. Such a configuration can eliminate dead zones with respect to air flow that is to pull the chopped crop materials into the chamber and/or to separate crop residue from the chopped billets.

Abstract: The present invention is for shaping a packet time out threshold in a wireless telecommunications network including a TCP session. First, a TCP communications session (18) is identified during which first and second communications nodes (12, 14) communicate with one another by transmitting and receiving data packets across first and second channels (22, 24) of a wireless network (16). Next, a processor (26) located either in one of the communications nodes (12, 14) or in a network base station subsystem (20) determines delay characteristics of each of first and second channels (22, 24) of the communications session. Once the delay characteristics are determined, the processor (20) causes a delay packet to be transmitted on a slower of the first and second channels (22, 24) at predetermined intervals to increase an average time delay associated with both the first and second channels (22, 24). Consequently, the number of unnecessary packet time outs on the first and second channels (22, 24) is minimized.