A system and method for restraining a vehicular brake pedal in depressed position. The first and second semiconductor devices are stacked so that the first major surface of the first semiconductor device faces the first major surface of the second semiconductor device. Once a frame has been categorized as aborted, the receiver determines an RLP frame corresponding to the higher layer packet boundary, sets V to a next missing link-layer frame after a higher-layer packet boundary and pushes frames up to V to the higher layer. The stator units thus structured are joined to each other such that respective distal pole teeth adjacent to each other are shifted from each other by an electrical angle of either 90 or 270 degrees, and in this way the stator assembly is completed. The first frame is engaged with a bottom strut supported on spaced apart wheels for moving the apparatus on a surface. In a container for sintering 10, a compact 100 is sintered into a magnetostrictive element having a composition of SmFe2 while held by a support 20 of SmFe2 or Nb stable during the sintering step.