Patent 7810911 was granted and assigned to Samsung on October, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A thermal inkjet printhead includes a plurality of bonding pads to which an external voltage is applied, a plurality of common wires connected to the each of the bonding pads, respectively, a plurality of individual wires connected to each of the common wires, respectively, and heaters connected to each of the individual wires, respectively, to generate ink bubbles by heating ink, wherein each of the common wires includes a first metal layer and a first metal bump which are formed on the first metal layer.